---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages; authorizing certain underage employee to work at specific workplace. Emergency."
description: "Alcoholic beverages; authorizing certain underage employee to work at specific workplace. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1708"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1708 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martinez", "Paxton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b508432-30bd-4f4b-8887-e1c8b8aedc78"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1708&session=2200"
source_hash: "94c11ac3a7cb9385f7f0455b03ae3522b48c475a16afd6e416f05fd9186e53b7"
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 1708 (2022) — Alcoholic beverages; authorizing certain underage employee to work at specific workplace. 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/SB1708 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB1708 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB1708 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB1708 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB1708 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Martinez — primary (person)
- Paxton — 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 Paxton
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Business, Commerce and Tourism `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported Do Pass Business and Commerce committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** Coauthored by Representative Martinez (principal House author)
- **2022-03-09** General Order, Considered
- **2022-03-09** Measure failed: Ayes: 21 Nays: 20
- **2022-03-09** Notice served to reconsider vote on measure Paxton
- **2022-03-14** Motion to reconsider vote adopted: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1
- **2022-03-14** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 11 `passage`
- **2022-03-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-03-15** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2022-03-15** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-28** Second Reading referred to Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-14** CR; Do Pass Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-20** General Order
- **2022-04-20** Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 57 Nays: 35; Ayes: 47 Nays: 33 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-20** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-20** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-04-21** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-04-21** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-21** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-25** Approved by Governor 04/25/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b508432-30bd-4f4b-8887-e1c8b8aedc78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).