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Votes at a glance: Oklahoma Senate advances and passes multiple bills on session day
Summary
The Oklahoma Senate advanced and passed several bills on the floor, including measures on health-care payment fee transparency, medical marijuana ID formatting, investment statute cleanup, small-business incubator reporting, and septic licensing limits.
The Oklahoma State Senate advanced and/or passed multiple bills during the session day. Listed below are the measures the Senate advanced or passed on the floor, with vote tallies and brief descriptions based on floor explanations.
- Senate Bill 438 (Sponsor: Sen. Coleman) — Protects health-care providers from undisclosed fees tied to payment methods; advances and passed the Senate. Advancement roll-call recorded as 40-0; final passage recorded as 41-0. (Advancement explanation at floor: "Senate Bill 4 38 protects health care providers from unnecessary fees by for alternative fee free payment methods.")
- Senate Bill 774 (Sponsor: Sen. Coleman) — Reduces characters on medical-marijuana patient/caregiver ID numbers from 24 to 12 and adds a barcode for scanning; advanced and passed the Senate, roll-call 42-0 on advancement and 42-0 on final passage.
- Senate Bill 957 (Sponsor: Sen. Albert) — Statutory cleanup to consolidate investment-related statutes and add fire, water and library districts to definitions; advanced and passed (roll-call 43-0 on advancement; final passage recorded 43-0).
- Senate Bill 634 (Sponsor: Sen. Kern) — Updates impaired-driving prevention committee membership; advanced and passed (advancement 44-0; final passage recorded 43-? per roll calls). (Sponsor explained committee request to add members.)
- Senate Bill 988 (Sponsor: Sen. Reinhardt) — Moves certain lien filing responsibilities from the Secretary of State to the Oklahoma County Clerk to streamline filings; advanced and passed unanimously when taken up.
- Senate Bill 573 (Sponsor: Sen. Rader) — Adds reporting requirements for participants in the small-business incubator program receiving corporate tax exemptions; advanced and passed (roll-call 43-0 advancement; final passage 44-0 recorded).
- Senate Bill 582 (Sponsor: Sen. Rader) — Reduces the forecasting requirement for OTC agencies from an additional two fiscal years to two (adjustment to forecasting statute); advanced and passed with recorded votes.
- Senate Bill 583 (Sponsor: Sen. Rader) — Clarifies that sales-tax reports and payments must be timely filed to avoid delinquency at business closure; advanced and passed by unanimous consent.
- Senate Bill 111 (Sponsor: Sen. Kern) — Lowers the number of septic systems installable per person per calendar year without a license from 10 to 1 to prevent abuse of the exemption; advanced and passed (33-12 recorded on advancement/final passage).
For each bill above, the Senate recorded floor explanations by the sponsoring senator, then conducted roll-call or unanimous-consent procedures as recorded on the floor. Several bills advanced with unanimous consent; others had recorded roll-call votes as shown in the Senate transcript.
If a reader needs the full roll-call record or the bill text, consult the Senate clerk's journal or the Oklahoma Legislature's bill portal for official enrolled versions and vote-by-name tallies.
