---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; providing for meeting by teleconference or videoconference; meeting notice requirements; authorizing executive sessions by certain methods. Emergency."
description: "Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; providing for meeting by teleconference or videoconference; meeting notice requirements; authorizing executive sessions by certain methods. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 661"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 661 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard", "McCall"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/394322f6-af6f-464d-9c6a-dd7ce3ada00f"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB661&session=2000"
source_hash: "0a83ab3a7571842e49d74bf75b445e5a9eb5095f83688c1806c992eaefe7b6e8"
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 661 (2020) — Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; providing for meeting by teleconference or videoconference; meeting notice requirements; authorizing executive sessions by certain methods. Emergency.

## 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/SB661 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Amendment to Amendment by MCCALL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB661 FA1-A1 MCCALLCH-SH.PDF)
3. **1 Floor Amendment by MCCALL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB661 FA1 MCCALLCH-MAH.PDF)
4. **2 Amendment to Amendment by MCCALL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB661 FA1-A2 MCCALLCH-SH.PDF)
5. **3 Amendment to Amendment by MCCALL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB661 FA1-A3 MCCALLCH-SH.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB661 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB661 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB661 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB661 SFLR.PDF)
10. **SB661 (3-11-19) (PUGH) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB661 (3-11-19) (PUGH) RT FA1.PDF)
11. **SB661 (TITLE) (3-11-19) (PUGH) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB661 (TITLE) (3-11-19) (PUGH) RT FA1.PDF)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Howard — primary (person)
- McCall — 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 Pugh
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee then to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-14** Reported Do Pass as amended Business and Commerce committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-14** Title stricken
- **2019-02-14** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Coauthored by Representative McCall (principal House author)
- **2019-02-20** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20** Title stricken
- **2019-03-13** General Order, Amended
- **2019-03-13** Title restored
- **2019-03-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-03-13** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-14** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Rules `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2019-03-27** Referred to Government Efficiency `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** Withdrawn from Government Efficiency, Direct to Calendar
- **2020-03-17** General Order
- **2020-03-17** House Rule suspended
- **2020-03-17** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-17** Emergency added
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 69 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-03-17** Referred for engrossment
- **2020-03-17** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Remove as author Senator Pugh; authored by Senator Howard
- **2020-03-17** HAs read
- **2020-03-17** HAs adopted
- **2020-03-17** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Referred for enrollment
- **2020-03-17** Enrolled, to House
- **2020-03-17** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2020-03-17** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-18** Approved by Governor 03/18/2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/394322f6-af6f-464d-9c6a-dd7ce3ada00f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).