---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; allowing approved written examination proctors to administer certain examinations; requiring establishment of procedures to administer certain examinations; emergency."
description: "Motor vehicles; allowing approved written examination proctors to administer certain examinations; requiring establishment of procedures to administer certain examinations; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2465"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2465 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowe (Dick)", "Paxton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c26d600-80ee-4a65-bbc8-e16fb9bb9cd3"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2465&session=2100"
source_hash: "845ee9c20901697cbde0a0b9eceec7bc189d23770f70b97c5ff8cfbc615064ed"
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 2465 (2021) — Motor vehicles; allowing approved written examination proctors to administer certain examinations; requiring establishment of procedures to administer certain examinations; 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/HB2465 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/hB/HB2465 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/hB/HB2465 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/HB2465 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/HB2465 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Lowe (Dick) — primary (person)
- Paxton — 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 Lowe (Dick)
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Public Safety `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** CR; Do Pass Public Safety Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-09** Coauthored by Representative(s) West (Kevin), CrosswhiteHader, Talley, Miller, Boles, Conley, Stearman, West (Josh)
- **2021-02-09** Authored by Senator Paxton (principal Senate author)
- **2021-02-22** General Order
- **2021-02-22** Coauthored by Representative(s) Patzkowsky, Sims, Moore, Davis, Phillips, Lawson, Luttrell
- **2021-02-22** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 97 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-02-23** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2021-02-23** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-23** coauthored by Burns
- **2021-02-23** Coauthored by Representative Stark
- **2021-02-24** coauthored by Ford
- **2021-03-15** Second Reading referred to Public Safety `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Coauthored by Senator Bergstrom
- **2021-03-29** Reported Do Pass Public Safety committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-20** General Order, Considered
- **2021-04-20** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-04-21** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2021-04-21** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2021-04-21** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 04/26/2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c26d600-80ee-4a65-bbc8-e16fb9bb9cd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).