Votes at a glance: bills advanced and passed in Senate Appropriations session

This article summarizes formal votes recorded during the Appropriations Committee session and subsequent floor actions described in the transcript. For each bill we list the action taken at the hearing, a brief description, and the roll‑call tally where provided.

SB92 — Water and wastewater infrastructure loan program - Action: Bill advanced in committee and floor roll call recorded. - Description: Creates a revolving loan fund to finance municipal water and wastewater projects prioritized for small communities; OWRB expected to administer and set fees; final appropriation to be determined. - Vote: 19 ayes, 5 nays (clerk recorded; bill declared to advance)

SB130 — Nuclear feasibility study (Corp. Comm.) - Action: Advanced (due pass) and passed on floor vote reported in committee roll call. - Description: Directs the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to contract with an outside firm to perform a technical and legal feasibility study on nuclear generation; appropriates $375,000 (author and staff said the Corporation Commission estimated that figure). - Vote: 18 ayes, 6 nays (clerk recorded)

SB820 (listed as SB8 20 in transcript) — Include women’s professional sports in incentive statute - Action: Passed out of committee and recorded on roll call. - Description: Adds women’s professional sports to the statutory list that can qualify for existing sports incentive programs; staff said no immediate fiscal impact because current threshold is $10,000,000 and few entities now meet it. - Vote: 23 ayes, 1 nay (clerk recorded)

SB56 — Trained family caregiver program (Health Care Authority request) - Action: Passed out of committee with due pass. - Description: Authorizes Health Care Authority to establish a program that allows a qualified family member to receive training and be reimbursed to provide care to a Medicaid participant under RN supervision; staff estimated potential annual savings in the explanatory material. - Vote: 24 ayes, 0 nays (clerk recorded)

SB85 — County jail per‑diem increase (reimbursement for sheriffs’ jails) - Action: Passed as amended in committee. - Description: Negotiated increase in the per‑inmate daily reimbursement rate paid to sheriffs’ jails (rate changed from $27 to $32 per day as presented in committee); estimated cost to state around $1.9 million per the sponsor’s remarks. - Vote: 24 ayes, 0 nays (clerk recorded)

SB125 — Sports pools vehicle (see separate coverage) - Action: Advanced as a vehicle for potential compact/bill. - Description: Provides a bill vehicle to receive a state‑tribal sports wagering compact should negotiations conclude; leaves mobile vs. retail wagering, geofencing, and revenue splits to negotiation. - Vote: 14 ayes, 9 nays (clerk recorded)

SB140 — Oklahoma’s Promise application deadline and exemptions - Action: Passed out of committee. - Description: Extends and clarifies application deadlines and an exemption process for Oklahoma’s Promise eligibility; sponsor said changes intended for limited, sparing use. - Vote: 23 ayes, 0 nays (clerk recorded)

SB207 — Rare disease advisory council - Action: Passed with reported fiscal impact for council operations. - Description: Creates a council to advise state agencies and the Legislature on rare disease policy; sponsor reported a fiscal impact of $48,725 to establish and run the council. - Vote: 20 ayes, 2 nays (clerk recorded)

SB237 — Commission of the Land Office payment to counties with large CLO holdings - Action: Passed out of committee and floor roll call recorded. - Description: Requires the Commission of the Land Office to make payments to counties where CLO land ownership exceeds 10% of county area; sponsor said the bill currently affects Cimarron County and that the CLO does not currently make such payments. - Vote: 23 ayes, 0 nays (clerk recorded)

SB289 — Museum sales tax exemption sunset extension - Action: Passed out of committee. - Description: Extends the sunset for an existing sales tax exemption for small museums that are not nationally accredited. - Vote: 22 ayes, 1 nay (clerk recorded)

SB409 — Additional school funding tied to extra days of instruction - Action: Passed out of committee. - Description: Adds statutory language that every $25,000,000 appropriated to the financial support of public schools would require an additional school day above the statutory minimum; sponsors said the statutory framework links added recurring formula funding to additional instructional days. - Vote: 18 ayes, 5 nays (clerk recorded)

SB985 — Oklahoma Local Food for Schools program (fund creation) - Action: Passed out of committee. - Description: Creates a fund and program to facilitate purchase of local foods by school districts; committee noted last year’s appropriation and that the program awarded funds to 89 districts in the most recent application round. - Vote: 22 ayes, 0 nays (clerk recorded)

SB687 — Sales tax rebate administration and revolving fund - Action: Passed out of committee. - Description: Creates a revolving fund and administrative mechanism for a previously enacted sales tax rebate program (2021 law) and appropriates $15,000,000 to cover claims reported for 2022–23; sponsor said the original $42,000,000 cap remains statutory but current claims total roughly $14 million. - Vote: Recorded as passed in committee (roll call recorded at committee action)

What this means - Several bills with fiscal implications were advanced or passed by the committee; many appropriations and program details will be finalized during budget reconciliation and later committee action. Where the sponsor did not specify a final appropriation at the hearing, the amount will be set during the budget process.

Transcript provenance and roll‑call notes: the clerk’s roll calls and tallies were read into the record in the hearing transcript; the tallies above mirror the clerk announcements recorded during the session. If a roll call tally or final appropriation was not stated aloud in the transcript, the summary notes that the amount was not specified.