---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food licenses; providing limit on fees for farmer's market or county fair. Effective date."
description: "Food licenses; providing limit on fees for farmer's market or county fair. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 544"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 544 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Murdock", "Newton"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc818280-9f38-4d63-a552-1cc7f1e0fb5a"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB544&session=2000"
source_hash: "6d22649a1f11b7a3a6d75e9fd3d90ec2be4dc57bc5c6428a3b7e27bc380fcd8f"
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 544 (2020) — Food licenses; providing limit on fees for farmer's market or county fair. 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/SB544 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB544 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB544 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB544 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB544 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB544 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB544 HCS.PDF)
8. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB544 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- FOURTH READING — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Murdock — primary (person)
- Newton — 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 Murdock
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Agriculture and Wildlife `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Reported Do Pass Agriculture and Wildlife committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author)
- **2019-03-05** General Order, Considered
- **2019-03-05** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-06** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Agriculture and Rural Development `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-02** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Agriculture and Rural Development Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-02** Coauthored by Representative(s) Sanders
- **2019-04-23** General Order
- **2019-04-23** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-24** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-24** HAs read
- **2019-05-06** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2019-05-08** SCs named Murdock, Pederson, Hall, Kidd, Boren, Dossett
- **2019-05-13** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
- **2019-05-16** CCR read
- **2019-05-22** CCR adopted
- **2019-05-22** Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2019-05-22** CCR submitted
- **2019-05-23** CCR adopted
- **2019-05-23** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-23** To Senate
- **2019-05-23** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-23** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-23** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-23** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Approved by Governor 05/29/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc818280-9f38-4d63-a552-1cc7f1e0fb5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).