---
type: "Bill"
title: "City and county jails; defining certain term. Effective date."
description: "City and county jails; defining certain term. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 247"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 247 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ford", "Haste"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eac05b34-25f1-42ae-8875-8c9d6884485a"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB247&session=2400"
source_hash: "cb22dbfd0d01066d6d9323d61d538a28acfbb5e517fb2976b55f75a0e32a826b"
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 247 (2024) — City and county jails; defining certain term. 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/SB247 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB247 PCS.PDF)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB247 CS.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB247 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB247 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB247 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB247 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- County And Municipal Government Committee: Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Public Safety: Committee Substitute, Motion By Senator Jech - Adopted (Request No: 2001) — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ford — primary (person)
- Haste — 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 Rader
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Coauthored by Representative Sterling (principal House author)
- **2023-02-23** Coauthored by Representative Waldron
- **2023-03-01** Remove as author Senator Rader; authored by Senator Haste
- **2023-03-01** Remove as principal author Representative Sterling and substitute with Representative Ford
- **2023-03-01** Coauthored by Representative Sterling
- **2023-03-02** Withdrawn from Health and Human Services committee
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Public Safety committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** General Order, Considered
- **2023-03-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-14** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-03-14** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to County and Municipal Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** CR; Do Pass County and Municipal Government Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-18** General Order
- **2023-04-18** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 86 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-04-18** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-04-19** Enrolled, to House
- **2023-04-19** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-04-19** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-20** Approved by Governor 04/20/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eac05b34-25f1-42ae-8875-8c9d6884485a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).