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Committee clears felony-sentencing cleanup bill aligning code with prior modernization law
Summary
House Bill 2104, a felony-sentencing cleanup bill that organizers described as code alignment with last year’s felony-sentencing modernization, was amended and reported out of the Oklahoma House Rules Committee.
Chairman Osborne presented House Bill 2104 to the Rules Committee as a felony-sentencing cleanup measure that aligns the criminal code with last year’s felony-sentencing modernization law, Representative Osborne said.
Representative Osborne moved amendments that delete newly created subcategories of larceny that were created in drafting; the amendments were described as technical fixes meant to avoid creating unintended new felonies. “These amendments are simply deleting, erroneously created new subcategories of larceny,” Osborne said, and the committee adopted the amendments by unanimous request.
Committee discussion reiterated that last year’s House Bill 1792 reorganized felony sentencing and that HB2104 is intended to place those changes into the criminal code. Osborne and staff told members the bill makes no substantive changes to sentencing policy and that the statutory provisions would take effect Jan. 1, 2026, to allow affected parties time to prepare and train.
Representative Fugate asked about minimum sentencing percentage provisions and whether the changes alter existing rules for credit/time-served or plea negotiations; sponsors and staff said the cleanup bill does not change existing law on those points. The committee opened the vote and later reported the bill out of committee as due passed; the transcript excerpt shows the bill was reported out but the numeric tally in the excerpt is not specified unambiguously.
