---
type: "Bill"
title: "Court reporters; establishing options for cases in which a court reporter is unavailable; authorizing Supreme Court to set certain transcript fee. Effective date."
description: "Court reporters; establishing options for cases in which a court reporter is unavailable; authorizing Supreme Court to set certain transcript fee. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 296 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard", "Stinson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/533f75bc-b9a3-4551-bb7b-083a08f476cb"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB296&session=2300"
source_hash: "4c96ec61b5650737d6a649cbfad2482cdb03c38f5aebee3903b4138a1cd0e647"
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 296 (2023) — Court reporters; establishing options for cases in which a court reporter is unavailable; authorizing Supreme Court to set certain transcript fee. 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB296 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB296 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB296 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB296 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB296 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Howard — primary (person)
- Stinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Authored by Senator Howard
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
- **2023-02-20** General Order, Considered
- **2023-02-20** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-02-21** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-02-21** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Judiciary - Civil `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** CR; Do Pass Judiciary - Civil Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-19** General Order
- **2023-04-19** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 78 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-04-19** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-04-20** Enrolled, to House
- **2023-04-20** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-04-20** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-26** Approved by Governor 04/26/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/533f75bc-b9a3-4551-bb7b-083a08f476cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).