Oklahoma lawmakers have until Thursday to submit legislation that can be heard this year, and some are working down to the wire.

By Monday, just 291 House and Senate bills were filed and available online. In a typical year, there are well more than a thousand bills proposed to amend, add to or repeal state laws. That total doesn't include joint resolutions, which can carry the force of law like bills, and other simple resolutions that only proclaim the House or Senate's opinion on an issue.

Most of the rooms at the Oklahoma Capitol were quiet and dark Monday on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but state Rep. Bobby Cleveland was in his fourth-floor office listening to the Beach Boys and combing through one of the bills he plans on filing this year.

“I'm just trying to make sure I have everything done correctly,” said Cleveland, R-Slaughterville, as he used a yellow highlighter to mark paragraphs of one measure. “Today's a perfect day to do it.”