SB 831 Oklahoma Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Election boards; increasing amount of per diem for members for certain meetings. Effective date.

SB 831 is a bill designed to adjust the compensation for members of election boards. It increases the per diem, or daily allowance, that these members receive when attending specific meetings. This change directly affects individuals serving on election boards by modifying their reimbursement rates. The bill also specifies an effective date for these new per diem amounts to come into force.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action May 12, 2025

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What changed between versions

Floor (House) → Floor (Senate) · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill was amended during its passage from the House to the Senate floor, primarily updating formatting and metadata while making substantive changes to compensation amounts and meeting limits for election board members. The House version had a different title page format and committee report date, while the Senate version added a summary line and updated the committee report date to February 26, 2025.

Scope change

The bill's substantive scope regarding election board compensation remained consistent, though the Senate version added a new provision limiting reimbursement to 40 meetings per fiscal year for county election board chair and vice-chair positions.

TECHNICAL

Title page formatting changed from 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION' to 'SENATE FLOOR VERSION' with updated date and bill information layout.

Added a bracketed summary line describing the bill's purpose (election boards, compensation, per diem, effective date) in the Senate version.

REQUIREMENT

Added a 40-meeting per fiscal year limit for reimbursement payments to county election board chair and vice-chair members.

TIMELINE

Committee report date changed from April 17, 2025 to February 26, 2025 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

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Apr 30, 2025

Committee

Referred for enrollment

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 0

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee

lower

Apr 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Committee

Referred to Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

Engrossed to House

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Committee

Referred for engrossment

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Upper · Passed

Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Introduced

General Order, Amended

upper

Feb 26, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Committee

Referred to Appropriations

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed

upper

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

upper

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors