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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; authorizing executive session for discussion of certain sale, lease, or acquisition; limiting parties allowed to participate in executive session for certain purposes. Effective date."
+description: "Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; authorizing executive session for discussion of certain sale, lease, or acquisition; limiting parties allowed to participate in executive session for certain purposes. Effective date."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
+legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 491"
+citation: "Oklahoma SB 491 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Guthrie", "Hildebrant"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03e10dbe-1425-41b9-8733-34ea42b92afe"
+source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB491&session=2600"
+source_hash: "1b67ddee9aca3dfb3f8f760c2e57db51186de11927660b620c24c9ed8ccf3350"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ok"]
+---
+
+# Oklahoma SB 491 (2026) — Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; authorizing executive session for discussion of certain sale, lease, or acquisition; limiting parties allowed to participate in executive session for certain purposes. Effective date.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/SB/SB491 INT.PDF)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB491 ENGR.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB491 ENR.PDF)
+4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB491 HFLR.PDF)
+5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB491 SFLR.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Civil Judiciary Committee: Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **36–7** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **89–2** (pass) · lower
+- Judiciary And Public Safety Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- Judiciary — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Guthrie — primary (person)
+- Hildebrant — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Authored by Senator Guthrie
+- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** Coauthored by Representative Hildebrant (principal House author)
+- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-27** Placed on General Order
+- **2025-03-27** General Order, Considered
+- **2025-03-27** Measure passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 7 `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Referred for engrossment
+- **2025-03-31** Engrossed to House `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Referred to Civil Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Civil Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-17** CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
+- **2025-05-08** General Order
+- **2025-05-08** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-08** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-05-08** Referred for enrollment
+- **2025-05-12** Enrolled, to House
+- **2025-05-12** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-05-12** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-19** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/19/2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03e10dbe-1425-41b9-8733-34ea42b92afe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).
+