---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telecommunications; Rural Broadband Expansion Council; allowing legislators to have chair or co-chair position; guidelines for broadband incentive awards; emergency."
description: "Telecommunications; Rural Broadband Expansion Council; allowing legislators to have chair or co-chair position; guidelines for broadband incentive awards; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2040"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2040 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leewright", "McCall"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 40
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abe2c61f-7131-4bd1-ad27-0ebb71bfc4a5"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2040&session=2100"
source_hash: "d0efeb44d87b9de4eef835101faa775e9b2736f7b484b0294830d65a4eb9f50e"
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 HB 2040 (2021) — Telecommunications; Rural Broadband Expansion Council; allowing legislators to have chair or co-chair position; guidelines for broadband incentive awards; 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/2021-22 INT/hB/HB2040 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by MCCALL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB2040 FA1 MCCALLCH-MAH.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/HB2040 SAHB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/hB/HB2040 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/hB/HB2040 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/HB2040 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/HB2040 SFLR.PDF)
8. **HB2040 FULLPCS1 CHARLES MCCALL-MAH.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB2040 FULLPCS1 CHARLES MCCALL-MAH.PDF)
9. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB2040 CS.PDF)
10. **House Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCCS/HB2040 CCS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Leewright — primary (person)
- McCall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Authored by Representative McCall
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2021-02-22** Referred to Appropriations and Budget `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-25** Emergency added
- **2021-03-11** General Order
- **2021-03-11** Authored by Senator Leewright (principal Senate author)
- **2021-03-11** Amended by floor substitute
- **2021-03-11** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 14 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-15** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-15** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-17** Second Reading referred to Finance Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Reported Do Pass as amended Finance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-30** Title stricken
- **2021-03-30** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07** Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-22** General Order, Considered
- **2021-04-22** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2021-04-22** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-04-26** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-04-26** SA's received
- **2021-05-03** SA's rejected, conference requested, naming GCCA
- **2021-05-04** Conference granted, GCCA
- **2021-05-13** HC's changed: Withdrawn from GCCA and naming Conference Committee on Technology
- **2021-05-18** CCR submitted
- **2021-05-18** Title restored
- **2021-05-24** CCR adopted
- **2021-05-24** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 92 Nays: 6 `passage`
- **2021-05-24** To Senate
- **2021-05-24** CCR read
- **2021-05-25** CCR adopted
- **2021-05-25** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 42 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-05-26** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2021-05-26** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2021-05-26** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-27** Approved by Governor 05/28/2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/abe2c61f-7131-4bd1-ad27-0ebb71bfc4a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).