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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Harmful woody species; requiring certain report to be compiled and submitted to the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Effective date. Emergency."
+description: "Harmful woody species; requiring certain report to be compiled and submitted to the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Effective date. Emergency."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
+legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 940"
+citation: "Oklahoma SB 940 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dobrinski", "Jech"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ca23948-d3ae-4e1e-a48f-f6b9574ccc69"
+source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB940&session=2600"
+source_hash: "0054567c8308f51134c0eb43515e2567bf92d662e8e89d41e63217b2bf597502"
+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 940 (2026) — Harmful woody species; requiring certain report to be compiled and submitted to the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Effective date. Emergency.
+
+## 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/SB940 INT.PDF)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB940 ENGR.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB940 ENR.PDF)
+4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB940 HFLR.PDF)
+5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB940 SFLR.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Energy And Natural Resources Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **86–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- Agriculture Committee: Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dobrinski — primary (person)
+- Jech — 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 Jech
+- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Agriculture and Wildlife `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** Reported Do Pass Agriculture and Wildlife committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-20** Placed on General Order
+- **2025-02-27** Coauthored by Representative Dobrinski (principal House author)
+- **2025-03-10** General Order, Considered
+- **2025-03-10** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Referred for engrossment
+- **2025-03-11** Engrossed to House `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Energy and Natural Resources Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Referred to Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Energy and Natural Resources Oversight committee; Do Pass Agriculture `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Coauthored by Representative(s) Ranson
+- **2025-04-28** General Order
+- **2025-04-28** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 86 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-28** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-04-28** Referred for enrollment
+- **2025-04-29** Enrolled, to House
+- **2025-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-04-29** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-06** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/06/2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ca23948-d3ae-4e1e-a48f-f6b9574ccc69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).
+