---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act; prohibiting governmental declaration of religious institution as nonessential; prohibiting certain closures. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act; prohibiting governmental declaration of religious institution as nonessential; prohibiting certain closures. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 368"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 368 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bullard", "Hill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58259bae-1d11-4548-ba83-4fa5a424144d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB368&session=2100"
source_hash: "a541719629fe571f38402889a17f87cb56c498a9b014885462f8f65304d85804"
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 368 (2021) — Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act; prohibiting governmental declaration of religious institution as nonessential; prohibiting certain closures. 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/2021-22 INT/SB/SB368 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB368 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB368 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB368 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB368 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Bullard — primary (person)
- Hill — 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 Senator Bullard
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10** Coauthored by Representative Gann (principal House author)
- **2021-02-24** Coauthored by Senator Bergstrom
- **2021-03-02** remove as principal author Representative Gann and substitute with Representative Hill
- **2021-03-02** coauthored by Gann
- **2021-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Burns
- **2021-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Jett
- **2021-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Taylor
- **2021-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Stephens
- **2021-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2021-03-11** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 9 `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-15** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-15** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to States Rights `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** CR; Do Pass States Rights Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31** Coauthored by Representative(s) Davis
- **2021-04-20** General Order
- **2021-04-20** Remove as coauthor Representative(s) Gann
- **2021-04-20** Coauthored by Representative(s) Lawson, Boles, West (Kevin), CrosswhiteHader, Phillips, Kendrix, Russ
- **2021-04-20** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 72 Nays: 20 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-04-21** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-04-21** Coauthored by Representative Grego
- **2021-04-21** remove as coauthor Representative(s) Kendrix
- **2021-04-21** Coauthored by Representative Roberts (Sean)
- **2021-04-21** Coauthored by Senator Standridge
- **2021-04-22** Enrolled, to House
- **2021-04-22** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-04-22** 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/58259bae-1d11-4548-ba83-4fa5a424144d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).