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Oklahoma House adopts multiple measures, overrides governor on one bill
Summary
The Oklahoma House voted to adopt a criminal procedure bill, overrode the governor on one bill with a two-thirds vote, adopted a concurrent resolution to waive legislative deadlines and approved motions to send other bills to conference. The House recessed until 1 p.m.
The Oklahoma House of Representatives convened and handled several procedural and legislative items, including final passage of a criminal procedure bill, an override of a governor’s objection on another bill, adoption of a concurrent resolution to waive joint deadlines and motions to reject Senate amendments and request conference committees.
Representative Stinson explained amendments to House Bill 21-37, saying the changes were "a request from the attorney general's office" and urging the House to accept them. After the clerk read the bill for final passage, the presiding officer put the question and, following the roll call, declared the bill passed.
From the floor, a member identified in the record as Representative Dabrinski moved to reject the Senate amendments to House Bill 17-28 and requested a conference committee. Separately, from the deputy floor leader's desk a motion was made to reject the Senate amendments to House Bill 30-21 and request a conference.
Speaker Hilbert moved that House Bill 44-32 become law "notwithstanding the objections of the governor." The clerk conducted a recorded vote; the tally was announced as 68 yeas and 15 nays. The presiding officer stated the result met the two-thirds threshold and declared that House Bill 44-32 had sufficient votes to become law over the governor's objections.
Leader West introduced House Concurrent Resolution 10-28 to waive the joint deadlines for the House and Senate for the remainder of the 60th Legislature, saying the change "would allow us to run legislation to the last day" because the Senate was not scheduled to work that week. After a division was requested, the clerk announced a recorded vote of 77 yeas and 4 nays and the presiding officer declared the resolution adopted.
A motion was later made to suspend House rules 8.8 and 4.4(j) for the remainder of the Legislature. The clerk announced a recorded tally of 68 yeas and 15 nays; the transcript contains inconsistent language about whether the two-thirds requirement was met for that motion.
The House stood in recess until 1:00 p.m., and members were reminded of caucus meetings.
The House’s public remarks included procedural explanations and brief floor statements. Representative Hilbert noted the chamber "got good policy before us to consider" and that members had been provided dinner for the evening as they planned a long day.
The session’s formal actions—motions, recorded votes, and the concurrent resolution—were supported by floor statements and roll-call tallies recorded on the House floor.
