Open meetings; Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; email distribution systems; effective date.
HB 1409 amends Oklahoma's Open Meeting Act to require all public bodies (including state, county, municipal, and school district boards) to establish a free email distribution system for meeting notices. Public bodies must send 24-hour advance email notices containing meeting date, time, location, and agenda to subscribers, with individuals needing annual confirmation to stay on the list. This complements existing requirements for physical posting and website notices but adds a new digital notification method. The bill directly affects how public entities notify citizens about meetings, aiming to improve accessibility to meeting information.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2026
House Passage
May 2026
Senate Passage
Mar 2026
Signed into Law
May 2026
Introduced Feb 3, 2025
Signed May 11, 2026
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The bill was amended to shift from a House version to a Senate version, incorporating specific committee amendments that expand the scope of public bodies required to provide meeting notices. The changes mandate that state public bodies, including public trusts and other entities where the state is a beneficiary, must now submit meeting schedules to the Secretary of State, whereas the original House version applied this requirement only to state bodies. Additionally, the Senate version clarifies notice requirements for multicounty and regional bodies, specifying that they should notify the county clerk of the county they serve if no central office exists.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded to explicitly include 'public trusts and other bodies with the state as beneficiary' under the notice requirements for state public bodies, and clarified the notice recipient for multicounty and regional bodies.
SCOPE
Expanded the definition of state public bodies subject to notice requirements to include public trusts and other bodies where the state is a beneficiary.
REQUIREMENT
Clarified that multicounty, regional, areawide, or district public bodies must provide notice to the county clerk of the county they serve if no central office exists.
Reorganized the structure of notice requirements to explicitly separate state, county, municipal, and multicounty/region entities into distinct numbered subsections.
Floor votes · Senate Mar 17, 2026 · House Mar 13, 2025
How they voted
33–11
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 50
Mar 17, 2026
D
Democratic9
88% Yea
R
Republican41
60% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
29
Key actions
10
Committee
7
Amendments
1
May 11, 2026
Signed into law
Approved by Governor 05/07/2026
lower
May 5, 2026
Committee
Referred for enrollment
lower
May 5, 2026
Lower · Passed
Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 82 Nays: 1
lower
May 5, 2026
Lower · Passed
SA's read, adopted
lower
Mar 23, 2026
Upper · Passed
Engrossed to House
upper
Mar 17, 2026
Committee
Referred for engrossment
upper
Mar 17, 2026
Upper · Passed
Measure passed: Ayes: 32 Nays: 10
upper
Mar 17, 2026
Introduced
General Order, Amended
upper
Apr 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported Do Pass as amended Technology and Telecommunications committee; CR filed
upper
Mar 17, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
upper
Mar 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Engrossed, signed, to Senate
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Committee
Referred for engrossment
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 0
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
CR; Do Pass Government Oversight Committee
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass General Government
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to General Government
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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