Oklahoma's grocery tax is here to stay for now as state Senate leadership confirmed that eliminating it would not be considered during a special session this week.Gov. Kevin Stitt called on lawmakers Tuesday to take action, conveying a message he's delivered before – he wants Oklahoma lawmakers to pass meaningful inflation relief now. His primary target is the state's 4.5% grocery tax."We can provide inflation relief, fiscally responsible, and we can do it now," Stitt said. "Let's start with just ending the grocery tax."The governor said he wants the grocery tax eliminated this week during a special session of the state legislature.A spokesperson for Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat said that won't happen. Instead, tax reform like income or grocery tax cuts will be dealt with during the next regular session, which doesn't start until February.Ultimately, Treat said tax cuts can still happen eventually."If it's sustainable. And since I've been in the legislature, we had a $600 million shortfall, an $800 million shortfall and a $1.3 billion shortfall. At the time, we were talking about minimizing cuts to critical services," Treat said in July.Lawmakers have blamed Stitt for preventing real relief – pointing to Project Ocean, which is an ongoing effort to attract a large manufacturer to Oklahoma."Those types of requests that the governor asked for, that the legislature delivered on, that limits what you can do in other areas," state Rep. Charles McCall said in May. Some have said Project Ocean got in the way of meaningful inflation relief. KOCO 5 asked Stiff if he thinks that's a fair assessment."No. I don't think that's fair. With the money we've set aside for Project Ocean, that's another $700 million in savings that we have as well," Stitt said. "But, no, we can do multiple things. There's thousands of bills that are filed every year."It appears now that any bills dealing with inflation relief won't become law until at least 2023.