---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational licensing and certification; allowing certain individuals with a criminal history to receive licensing and certification to practice. Effective date."
description: "Occupational licensing and certification; allowing certain individuals with a criminal history to receive licensing and certification to practice. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1691"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1691 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boles", "Taylor"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/594db15d-c412-4b77-842c-c81643140631"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1691&session=2200"
source_hash: "3796d880bae9503679418f3880f768424bd380f463be9ee4a6eb353d326e8851"
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 1691 (2022) — Occupational licensing and certification; allowing certain individuals with a criminal history to receive licensing and certification to practice. Effective date.

## 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/SB1691 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB1691 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1691 CA1.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB1691 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB1691 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB1691 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB1691 SFLR.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB1691 HCS.PDF)
9. **SB1691 FULLPCS1 BRAD BOLES-LRB.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB1691 FULLPCS1 BRAD BOLES-LRB.PDF)
10. **SB1691 FULLPCS2 BRAD BOLES-LRB.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB1691 FULLPCS2 BRAD BOLES-LRB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Boles — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Authored by Senator Taylor
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Business, Commerce and Tourism `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Coauthored by Representative Boles (principal House author)
- **2022-02-09** Coauthored by Senator Rader
- **2022-02-10** Reported Do Pass as amended Business and Commerce committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** General Order, Considered
- **2022-02-22** Measure passed: Ayes: 47 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-02-28** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2022-02-28** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-28** Second Reading referred to Judiciary - Criminal `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary - Criminal Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-13** Coauthored by Representative(s) Lepak, Mize, McDugle, Munson, Stark, Hilbert
- **2022-04-20** General Order
- **2022-04-20** Coauthored by Representative(s) West (Tammy), Talley, Provenzano, Roberts (Eric)
- **2022-04-20** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 81 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-20** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-04-21** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2022-04-21** HAs read
- **2022-05-10** HAs adopted
- **2022-05-10** Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-05-10** Coauthored by Senator Jech
- **2022-05-11** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-05-11** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-05-11** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-16** Approved by Governor 05/16/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/594db15d-c412-4b77-842c-c81643140631`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).