HB 3383 Oklahoma House · 2026 Regular Session

State employees; working hours; emergency conditions; Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

HB 3383 limits most Oklahoma state employees to working no more than 14 hours in any 24-hour period, including overtime. This rule may be temporarily suspended during officially declared emergencies to protect life, public safety, or critical infrastructure. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services must define what qualifies as an emergency, and all state agencies must create new scheduling rules to comply. The law takes effect July 1, 2026.

Issues: ✓ Labor & Employment

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Mar 2026

House Passage

Mar 2026

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 2, 2026 Last action Apr 16, 2026

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What changed between versions

Engrossed → Floor (House) · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was renumbered and reformatted for the House floor version, shifting from an 'Engrossed' status to a 'Floor Version' header. The core policy text regarding state employee working hours remains substantively identical, with no changes to the 14-hour limit, the 24-hour rolling period, emergency exceptions, or the requirement for administrative rules.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged; the text continues to apply to all state employees with the same exemptions for legislative staff and emergency conditions.

TECHNICAL

The document header was updated from 'ENGROSSED HOUSE' to 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION' and the session year was updated to 2026.

The bill title and summary were slightly rephrased to use 'prescribing' instead of 'limit on' and 'providing' instead of 'computation of', but the legal meaning is identical.

The effective date section was moved from the end of the bill to a new Section 2, and the emergency declaration was moved to Section 3.

A new footer was added indicating that bold face text denotes Committee Amendments, which was not present in the previous version.

Floor votes · House Mar 26, 2026

How they voted

56–32

Passed · 12 other

Total votes 100

Mar 26, 2026

D Democratic18

18 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican82

38 Yea 32 Nay 12

46% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Mar 30, 2026

Introduced

First Reading

upper

Mar 30, 2026

Lower · Passed

Engrossed, signed, to Senate

lower

Mar 26, 2026

Committee

Referred for engrossment

lower

Mar 26, 2026

Lower · Passed

Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 56 Nays: 31; Ayes: 56 Nays: 31

lower

Mar 26, 2026

Lower · Passed

Amended

lower

Mar 26, 2026

Lower · Passed

Motion to reconsider adopted: Ayes: 55 Nays: 24

lower

Mar 25, 2026

Lower · Passed

Amended

lower

Mar 3, 2026

Lower · Passed

CR; Do Pass Government Oversight Committee

lower

Feb 10, 2026

Lower · Passed

Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass General Government

lower

Feb 3, 2026

Committee

Referred to General Government

lower

Feb 2, 2026

Introduced

First Reading

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors