OKMULGEE, Okla. – The vote of NCA 25-018, a bill that would have limited the Principal Chief’s ability to repeatedly nominate temporary cabinet positions, and would have penalized those who attempted to operate in those positions without approval by the National Council, has been overturned by the National Council.
The bill had previously received unanimous support from the council, with all but one person on the council being a co-sponsor of the bill brought up by Representative Dode Barnett of the Creek District, and it had been passed by the National Council with a vote of 15-0 before being vetoed by Chief Hill.
The veto of the bill, which had been stated in the agenda as “A law of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation amending MCNCA Title 16 § 1-108, entitled “Legitimate purposes for commissions to fill vacancies,” and § 1-109, entitled “Commissions no substitution for joint approval of appointments,” and creating new subsection, entitled “Nominations” in MCNCA Title 16, Chapter 1, entitled “Organization of the Executive Office of the Principal Chief,” was overturned by a vote of 14-1.
Principal Chief Hill had no comment.
