HB 1591 Oklahoma House · 2025 Regular Session

Crimes and punishments; adding specific crimes to list of offenses; effective date.

House Bill 1591 amends existing Oklahoma law by adding specific crimes to a list of offenses that carry stricter sentencing requirements. Under this bill, individuals convicted of these newly included crimes must serve a minimum of 85% of their prison sentence. This means they are not eligible for parole or other sentence reduction credits until this threshold is met. The bill specifically adds domestic abuse by strangulation, domestic assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and aggravated assault and battery upon a law officer to this list of offenses.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
House Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action May 5, 2025
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What changed between versions

Floor (House) Floor (Senate) · 8 edits
MODERATE
The bill was amended to add more specific crimes to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time, including child pornography, child sex trafficking, and domestic abuse by strangulation. The Senate version also expanded the list to include additional violent crimes and clarified that offenders cannot earn sentence reduction credits.
Scope change
The scope of offenses requiring mandatory prison service was expanded from 15 crimes in the House version to 25 crimes in the Senate version, adding several serious offenses related to children and domestic violence.
SCOPE

Added child pornography and aggravated child pornography to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time

Added child sex trafficking to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time

Added abuse of a vulnerable adult to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time

Added aggravated trafficking to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time

Added domestic abuse by strangulation to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time

Added domestic assault and battery with a deadly weapon to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time

Added aggravated assault and battery upon a law officer to the list of offenses requiring mandatory prison time

REQUIREMENT

Clarified that offenders convicted of these offenses cannot earn earned credits or other credits that reduce sentence length below 85%

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
6
Committee
5
Amendments
1
Apr 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
Engrossed, signed, to Senate
lower
Mar 5, 2025
Committee
Referred for engrossment
lower
Mar 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 0
lower
Mar 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Amended
lower
Feb 25, 2025
Lower · Passed
CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Criminal Judiciary
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to Criminal Judiciary
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors