---
type: "Bill"
title: "District courts; clarifying judge required to establish drug court docket. Effective date."
description: "District courts; clarifying judge required to establish drug court docket. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 240"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 240 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard", "Stinson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae88ac0f-c9f2-49ca-b147-68ebc1bc9982"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB240&session=2400"
source_hash: "c75cd771b035d1d7078270b247c048b8ed09916afc813e4c47750899cdf8725a"
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 240 (2024) — District courts; clarifying judge required to establish drug court docket. 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/SB240 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB240 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB240 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB240 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB240 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Committee On Judiciary — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Judiciary - Criminal Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **86–0** (pass) · lower

## 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`
- **2023-02-07** Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
- **2023-02-14** General Order, Considered
- **2023-02-14** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-02-15** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-02-15** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Judiciary - Criminal `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** CR; Do Pass Judiciary - Criminal Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-19** General Order
- **2023-04-19** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 86 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/ae88ac0f-c9f2-49ca-b147-68ebc1bc9982`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).