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Votes at a glance: House advances a package of revenue, banking, licensing and education bills
Summary
The Oklahoma House cleared a large set of mostly noncontroversial bills on the floor, including changes to criminal procedure reporting, film incentives, banking and occupational rules, with recorded roll-call votes on each measure.
The Oklahoma House advanced and passed multiple measures on final passage during this floor session. The following summary lists the bills that received final passage with the recorded roll-call tallies as shown on the House floor.
Key actions and vote tallies
- House Bill 23-76 (criminal procedure; District Attorneys Council reporting): passed, recorded vote 74 ayes, 0 nays. Representative Hill said the change moves an existing DAC report from an on‑request basis to an every‑other‑year automatic filing to ensure oversight.
- House Bill 20-80 (banks and trust companies; payable-on-death account language): passed, recorded vote 87 ayes, 0 nays. Representative Blair said the bill addresses a discrepancy between bank and credit union statutes.
- House Bill 20-84 (professions and occupations; construction industry cleanup): passed, recorded vote 86 ayes, 5 nays. Representative Blair described the bill as cleanup language requested by the Construction Industries Board.
- House Bill 20-85 (Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission training): passed, recorded vote 81 ayes, 9 nays. The bill authorizes training for those affected by adopted building codes.
- House Bill 26-46 (gambling-loss deduction changes): passed, recorded vote 68 ayes, 25 nays. Representative Becketterer described the measure as altering tax treatment of gambling losses.
- House Bill 27-46 (Oklahoma Remote Quality Jobs Incentive Act amendment): passed, recorded vote 72 ayes, 11 nays. Representative Lawson said the bill adjusts employee premium-share language for benefit plans.
- House Bill 22-47 (special education; parental-rights posting to OSDE website): passed, recorded vote 75 ayes, 16 nays. Representative Waldron said the bill places federal least‑restrictive-environment guidance on the OSDE website.
- House Bill 28-36 (veterans assistance; fee compliance amendment adopted): passed, recorded vote 94 ayes, 0 nays. A floor amendment clarified any fee charged to veterans must comply with federal law.
- House Bill 17-51 (motor vehicles; Service Oklahoma cleanup): passed, recorded vote 85 ayes, 8 nays. Representative Curbs characterized the measure as a Service Oklahoma cleanup (credentialing and records alignment).
- House Bill 1,600 (health-care parental-consent language; “Lori Brand” bill reference): passed, recorded vote 84 ayes, 10 nays. Representative Geiss adopted an amendment referencing Title 25 (parental bill of rights) to tighten minor‑care language.
Brief context: most of these measures passed with little on-floor debate beyond clarifying questions and a small number of members seeking details, such as how amendments would operate or whether statutory cross-references exist. Where amendments were adopted on the floor, the House took unanimous‑consent steps to incorporate them before final passage.
What the transcript does not specify: the House proceedings recorded votes and passages; the transcript does not include full bill texts or the exact implementation timelines for each bill. Any fiscal or rulemaking details would be found in the enacted text and accompanying fiscal notes or agency implementation instructions.
