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Votes at a glance: House advances broad set of bills on schools, public safety, foster care and agriculture
Summary
On March 9 the Oklahoma House advanced and passed a sequence of bills covering schools, public‑safety penalties, foster‑care rules, Medicaid audits, agriculture and other topics; many passed with large majorities. This roundup lists key bills, sponsors, and vote tallies recorded on the floor.
The Oklahoma House moved rapidly through a package of bills on March 9, 2026, adopting measures on schools, public safety, foster care, agriculture, and other subjects. Many measures were advanced with brief sponsor explanations and one‑question exchanges before recorded roll calls.
Key floor outcomes reported on March 9 (not exhaustive):
- HB 29‑75 (Hardin) — agriculture cleanup regarding poultry litter and associated penalties; House recorded vote reported 89 aye, 8 nay; declared passed. - HB 30‑26 (Miller) — allows kindergarten start timing for children of U.S. allies to match home‑country timelines; final passage 97–0; third‑vote emergency also 97–0. - HB 32‑97 (Hayes) — regulatory framework for highway remediation services, raising minimum general liability to $3,000,000; passed 87–8. - HB 29‑81 (Banning) — requires school boards to post approved meeting minutes within two weeks and includes a 'two‑click' accessibility expectation; passed 93–0. - HB 41‑44 (Manger) — clarifies arrest and incident reports are open records under the Oklahoma Open Records Act; passed 97–0. - HB 37‑67 (Turner) — updates controlled‑substance scheduling to match federal designations; passed 95–1. - HB 33‑42 (Williams) — changes to Medicaid audit procedures at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority; recorded passage 67–25. - HB 33‑44 (Williams) — foster care reforms stemming from an interim study, advanced and passed (72–19; emergency also adopted by two‑thirds where recorded). - HB 32‑87 (Roe) — requires hospitals to post signage and have plans for domestic‑violence/human‑trafficking reporting; passed 92–0. - HB 44‑54 (Newton) — restricts edible marijuana shapes attractive to children; passed 89–0.
Floor practice: sponsors typically moved bills for adoption, yielded for limited questioning (often one question, one follow‑up), then moved final passage and the clerk activated the machine for roll call. The transcript shows consistent use of recorded tallies; names of all individual voters are not reproduced here (the clerk reads roll calls on the floor and the transcript records some individual 'aye' votes during certain roll calls). Where the transcript recorded the tally, that tally is reported above.
Next steps: Bills that passed will be transmitted to the Senate for consideration where additional floor action or conference changes may occur.
Ending: The House adjourned and will reconvene on March 10, 2026, at 9:30 a.m.
