---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election security; granting certain authority to State Election Board and county election boards relating to election security. Effective date."
description: "Election security; granting certain authority to State Election Board and county election boards relating to election security. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 261"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 261 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniels", "Wright"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb34cef0-b8d8-4d0b-9826-c03890e645f1"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB261&session=2000"
source_hash: "1593410a8faa506f506eff306cb1f7f2c37b1685045460233e4263c68ff82687"
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 261 (2020) — Election security; granting certain authority to State Election Board and county election boards relating to election security. 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/2019-20 INT/SB/SB261 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB261 CA1.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB261 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB261 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB261 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB261 SFLR.PDF)
7. **SB261 (2-26-19) (DANIELS) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB261 (2-26-19) (DANIELS) RT FA1.PDF)
8. **SB261 (3-05-19) (DANIELS) FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB261 (3-05-19) (DANIELS) FA2.PDF)
9. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB261 CS.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daniels — primary (person)
- Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Authored by Senator Daniels
- **2019-02-04** Coauthored by Senator Boren
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Rules Committee then to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Rules committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20** Title stricken
- **2019-02-27** Coauthored by Representative Wright (principal House author)
- **2019-03-11** General Order, Amended
- **2019-03-11** Title restored
- **2019-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Rules `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-03-26** CR; Do Pass Rules Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-18** General Order
- **2019-04-18** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 93 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-04-22** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-04-23** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-04-23** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-04-23** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-25** Approved by Governor 04/25/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb34cef0-b8d8-4d0b-9826-c03890e645f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).