SB 538 Oklahoma Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Special elections; modifying date when certain special elections may be conducted. Effective date. Emergency.

SB 538 modifies Oklahoma law to allow municipalities and school districts to hold special elections for bond issues or taxes on any November state or federal election day (in either odd- or even-numbered years), replacing previous restrictions on election timing. This directly affects local governments and school boards, which can now schedule these votes alongside regular elections without needing to follow specific date rules. The bill updates statutes (11 O.S. §16-112 for municipalities and 70 O.S. §15-102 for education) to align with this change and specifies an effective date of July 1, 2025. It does not alter bond amounts, voter requirements, or election administration procedures beyond the timing flexibility.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Mar 11, 2025

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Introduced → Floor (Senate) · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was updated from an introduced version to a Senate floor version with committee amendments. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, with the main changes being formatting, page numbering, and the addition of a committee report indicating the bill was approved to pass. No significant policy changes were made to the election dates, bond procedures, or statutory amendments.

TECHNICAL

Header information was updated to indicate this is the Senate Floor Version dated February 11, 2025, replacing the 'As Introduced' version.

Added a committee report at the end indicating the Committee on Local and County Government approved the bill to pass.

Page numbering and formatting were adjusted to reflect the Senate floor version layout, including adding page headers and footers.

Co-sponsor was added to the bill title, changing from 'By: Deevers' to 'By: Deevers and Jett'.

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Committee

Feb 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported Do Pass Local and County Government committee; CR filed

upper

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

upper

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors