Votes at a glance: Oklahoma House passes package including tougher repeat voyeurism penalties and higher-education measures
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Summary
On March 9 the Oklahoma House advanced and passed a sequence of bills across criminal justice, elections, higher education, records access and government operations. Several bills were passed with recorded roll-call tallies; some measures were debated, others were advanced by unanimous consent.
The Oklahoma House moved a slate of bills through final reading on March 9, approving measures that range from criminal-code changes to higher-education policy and administrative fixes.
Key outcomes at a glance:
• House Bill 4104 (Ford) — amends offenses related to voyeurism to make second or subsequent misdemeanors felonies and add felony convictions to the state's offender-registration statute. The sponsor explained the bill as converting repeat offenses into felonies so they are covered by the offender registration law; the House recorded a passage on the floor (recorded as 91-0 in the transcript).
• House Bill 3722 (Cross White Hader) — elections bill requiring an applicant to choose a party or select 'none' rather than allowing the state to infer affiliation when the field is blank; passed 75-18 after extended debate (detailed in a separate article).
• House Bill 3700 (Caldwell Chad) — higher-education bill to require grading based on academic content, not instructors' opinions; sponsor said the measure implements recommendations from the Oklahoma Free Speech Committee; the House passed the bill and approved the emergency vote as recorded in the floor record.
• House Bill 3701 (Caldwell Chad) — codifies the State Regents' review process for low-producing degree programs and creates exemption categories and a rolling review; passed after questions about flexibility and the five-year review period.
• House Bill 3310 (Eaves) — described on the floor as strengthening government accountability and fiscal stewardship; passed on final reading.
• House Bill 3404 (Grego) — agriculture measure to set a framework supporting prescribed burn associations; passed by recorded vote.
• House Bill 2964/29-64 (Westrick/Saccheri) — medical records bill: an amendment preserved a $20 base fee but allowed entities to charge less or not at all; amendment adopted by unanimous consent and the bill passed 92-0.
Other bills addressing state employee pay transparency, courts, public-corruption fixes, open-meetings corrections and other administrative topics were advanced and recorded as passed on the House floor. The House adjourned until Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.
The floor record shows roll-call tallies for many measures; where a recorded tally is noted in the transcript it is reported above. Several matters (for example HB 3722) prompted extended floor debate with distinct policy concerns about voter access or administrative alternatives.