---
type: "Bill"
title: "County retirement; increasing certain appropriation cap. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "County retirement; increasing certain appropriation cap. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 844"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 844 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberts (Sean)", "Stanislawski"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78eb14ba-9f66-480b-93e0-e45933b87673"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB844&session=2000"
source_hash: "1f94aa40c345a2f06c9411232a3e1b1694436a5a54d8ceecd27785247a21834d"
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 844 (2020) — County retirement; increasing certain appropriation cap. Effective date. 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/SB844 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB844 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB844 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB844 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB844 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB844 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/SB844 HCS.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- FOURTH READING — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roberts (Sean) — primary (person)
- Stanislawski — 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 Stanislawski
- **2019-02-07** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** Reported Do Pass as amended Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Title stricken
- **2019-02-25** Emergency clause stricken
- **2019-03-11** Coauthored by Representative Roberts (Sean) (principal House author)
- **2019-03-13** General Order, Considered
- **2019-03-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 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 County and Municipal Government `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-15** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute County and Municipal Government Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-15** Coauthored by Representative(s) Bush, May, Sims, Nollan
- **2019-04-15** Title restored
- **2019-04-15** Emergency restored
- **2019-04-24** General Order
- **2019-04-24** Coauthored by Representative(s) Boatman
- **2019-04-24** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 93 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-24** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-25** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-25** HAs read
- **2019-05-07** HAs adopted
- **2019-05-07** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-08** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-08** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-08** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-14** Approved by Governor 05/14/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78eb14ba-9f66-480b-93e0-e45933b87673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).