---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business entities; authorizing actions to determine validity of certain corporate instruments. Effective date."
description: "Business entities; authorizing actions to determine validity of certain corporate instruments. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 769"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 769 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leewright", "Montgomery"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c24f08f-b533-41b4-8406-7a3df84b8fb9"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB769&session=1800"
source_hash: "d28e002573b4cbd7fc26dfa8076103c4eb9372c470c014f807f27aa624d1c734"
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 769 (2017-2018) — Business entities; authorizing actions to determine validity of certain corporate instruments. Effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 INT/SB/SB769 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB769 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENGR/SB/SB769 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENR/SB/SB769 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/HFLR/SB769 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/SFLR/SB769 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB769 HCS.PDF)
8. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB769 CS.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **89–1** (pass) · lower
- FOURTH READING — **36–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leewright — primary (person)
- Montgomery — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Authored by Senator Leewright
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading referred to Business, Commerce and Tourism `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-23** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Business, Commerce and Tourism committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-01** Coauthored by Representative Montgomery (principal House author)
- **2017-03-02** coauthored by Murdock
- **2017-03-21** General Order, Amended
- **2017-03-21** Title stricken
- **2017-03-21** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-21** Referred for engrossment
- **2017-03-22** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2017-03-22** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2017-03-29** Referred to Judiciary - Civil and Environmental `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-11** Withdrawn from Judiciary - Civil and Environmental Committee
- **2017-04-11** Referred to Appropriations and Budget `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-18** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-18** Coauthored by Representative(s) Kannady
- **2017-04-18** Title restored
- **2017-04-27** General Order
- **2017-04-27** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2017-05-01** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2017-05-01** HAs read
- **2017-05-16** HAs adopted
- **2017-05-16** Measure passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 4 `passage`
- **2017-05-16** Referred for enrollment
- **2017-05-16** Enrolled, to House
- **2017-05-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2017-05-16** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-22** Approved by Governor 05/22/2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c24f08f-b533-41b4-8406-7a3df84b8fb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).