---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tourism; allowing the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department to enter into certain contracts and agreements; establishing certain conditions for contracts and agreements. Emergency."
description: "Tourism; allowing the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department to enter into certain contracts and agreements; establishing certain conditions for contracts and agreements. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1525"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1525 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frix", "Newton"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56ad130f-3dc5-42fe-a95a-bcadb4e2573e"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1525&session=2600"
source_hash: "58a99407631c239aa51e668e1b78821a94854b45d1cbe7b959df3d82e4b6ea46"
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 1525 (2026) — Tourism; allowing the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department to enter into certain contracts and agreements; establishing certain conditions for contracts and agreements. Emergency.

## 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/SB1525 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB1525 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1525 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1525 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1525 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1525 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB1525 HCS.PDF)
8. **Policy Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB1525 POLREC.PDF)
9. **Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB1525 POLPCS1 CARL NEWTON-JL.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **36–11** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **38–9** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency — **68–20** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **58–28** (pass) · lower
- General Government Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- Government Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **9–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frix — primary (person)
- Newton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Authored by Senator Frix
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author)
- **2026-02-10** Reported Do Pass as amended Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10** Title stricken
- **2026-02-10** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2026-02-12** Placed on General Order
- **2026-02-24** General Order, Considered
- **2026-02-24** Measure passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 11 `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-02-25** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-02-25** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Government Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to General Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute General Government `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-09** Emergency added
- **2026-04-15** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Government Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-15** Title restored
- **2026-04-28** General Order
- **2026-04-28** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 58 Nays: 28; Ayes: 68 Nays: 20 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-28** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-04-29** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2026-04-29** HAs read
- **2026-05-04** HAs adopted
- **2026-05-04** Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 9 `passage`
- **2026-05-04** Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 4
- **2026-05-04** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-04** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-04** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-04** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/05/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56ad130f-3dc5-42fe-a95a-bcadb4e2573e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).