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5 wild new Oklahoma laws that take effect November 1st

3:32 PM EDT on October 31, 2018

While the majority of you are going to spend your evening bumming the good chocolate off of your kid’s Halloween stash after they go to bed, lawmakers, religious zealots, and raptor enthusiasts will be counting down the hours until midnight strikes.

According to the Tulsa World, a bunch of wild and crazy new laws hit the books in our great state at midnight! Here are 5 or our favorites...

You can use your debit card for scratchers

With the advent of bank cards and ecommerce systems like Venmo or PayPal, unless you work at Chili’s or Night Trips you’re probably not going to have paper money on hand. In the past, this has limited people’s ability to buy lottery tickets being that gas stations and bait shops could only accept cash when dishing them out. But not anymore! Senate Bill 1303 will allow you to purchase scratchers more easily by using your debit card. This easier access will of course only make it easier to get the right combination of Power Ball numbers and in no way make it easier to develop a gambling problem.