---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wildlife; requiring nonresident hunters to receive permission from the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission to use Wildlife Management Areas. Effective date."
description: "Wildlife; requiring nonresident hunters to receive permission from the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission to use Wildlife Management Areas. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 448"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 448 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grego", "Hamilton"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16a5edf8-98d1-4f86-8d71-a58a5aceafd4"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB448&session=2500"
source_hash: "0b1ac7bda107a5ddb364c09d409bb88086c6b6a5066903c41ade88a260a54c9f"
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 448 (2025) — Wildlife; requiring nonresident hunters to receive permission from the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission to use Wildlife Management Areas. Effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/SB/SB448 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB448 PCS.PDF)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB448 CS.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB448 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB448 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB448 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB448 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Grego — primary (person)
- Hamilton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Authored by Senator Hamilton
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Agriculture and Wildlife `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Agriculture and Wildlife committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Placed on General Order
- **2025-02-13** Coauthored by Representative Grego (principal House author)
- **2025-03-27** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-27** Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-31** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-31** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Energy and Natural Resources Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Wildlife `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Energy and Natural Resources Oversight committee; Do Pass Wildlife `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-21** General Order
- **2025-04-21** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 78 Nays: 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-21** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-21** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-22** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-04-22** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-22** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-23** Approved by Governor 04/23/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16a5edf8-98d1-4f86-8d71-a58a5aceafd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).