HB 2619 Oklahoma House · 2025 Regular Session

Discovery; creating the Foreign Litigation Funding Prevention Act; commercial litigation funding agreements; prohibiting admissibility of certain information as evidence; effective date.

HB 2619 amends Oklahoma's discovery laws, primarily affecting parties involved in commercial litigation that utilize third-party funding. The bill requires parties to produce any commercial litigation funding agreements upon request and to certify, via a sworn affidavit, if any funds originate from a foreign state or its agencies. While these agreements must be disclosed, the information contained within them is not admissible as evidence at trial. Consumer litigation funding agreements are specifically exempt from these new disclosure requirements.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Signed May 15, 2025
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Floor (House) Floor (Senate) · 4 edits
MODERATE
The bill text was converted from the House version to the Senate floor version, with minor formatting adjustments. The substantive content of the Foreign Litigation Funding Prevention Act remains unchanged, including requirements for disclosing commercial litigation funding agreements and prohibitions on their admissibility as evidence.
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Header and page numbering were updated to reflect Senate floor version instead of House floor version.

Committee amendment notation changed from 'BOLD FACE denotes Committee Amendments' to '(Bold face denotes Committee Amendments)' with adjusted formatting.

Date 'April 22, 2025' was added to the Senate version header.

Sponsor attribution formatting was adjusted to include Howard of the Senate in the Senate version.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Actions timeline

Total actions
24
Key actions
8
Committee
6
May 15, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor 05/14/2025
lower
May 8, 2025
Committee
Referred for enrollment
lower
May 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Engrossed measure signed, returned to House
upper
May 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Measure passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 5
upper
Apr 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed
upper
Mar 12, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
upper
Mar 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Engrossed, signed, to Senate
lower
Mar 11, 2025
Committee
Referred for engrossment
lower
Mar 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 2
lower
Mar 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee
lower
Feb 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Civil Judiciary
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to Civil Judiciary
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors