Crimes and punishments; clarifying scope of certain unlawful act; effective date.
HB 1993 clarifies and strengthens penalties for drivers who elude law enforcement officers in Oklahoma. It defines specific misdemeanor penalties for willfully increasing speed, extinguishing lights, or otherwise attempting to evade officers, with higher fines for repeat offenses. The bill escalates penalties to felony charges if the eluding endangers others or causes "great bodily injury" (serious injury creating substantial risk of death or permanent disfigurement), imposing prison terms of 1-5 years and fines up to $5,000. This law, effective November 1, 2025, directly affects drivers who attempt to flee police vehicles.
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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This bill was revised to transition from the House floor version to the Senate floor version, incorporating committee amendments and formatting changes. The substantive policy content regarding eluding peace officers remains largely unchanged, though some formatting and committee attribution details were updated.
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Header information was updated to reflect Senate floor version with new date (April 15, 2025) and co-sponsor attribution to Senator Hamilton.
Committee report attribution changed from Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight to Public Safety Committee only.
Page headers and footers were reformatted to indicate Senate Floor Version instead of House Floor Version.
Floor votes · Senate May 7, 2025 · House Mar 13, 2025
How they voted
48–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 49
May 7, 2025
D
Democratic9
100% Yea
R
Republican40
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
23
Key actions
7
Committee
6
May 7, 2025
Committee
Referred for enrollment
lower
May 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Engrossed measure signed, returned to House
upper
May 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0
upper
Apr 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported Do Pass Public Safety 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: 78 Nays: 0
lower
Mar 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee
lower
Feb 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Public Safety
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to Public Safety
lower
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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