---
type: "Bill"
title: "County purchasing; modifying duties of county purchasing agent related to bidders. Effective date."
description: "County purchasing; modifying duties of county purchasing agent related to bidders. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 403"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 403 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cantrell", "Stewart"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8bbcaa4-11d8-4203-8b2e-8b824dc30642"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB403&session=2600"
source_hash: "3d5112d8f7cc87ae104d627c71718b6e9dae1607f0f5d01d842890996dc5bd5b"
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 403 (2026) — County purchasing; modifying duties of county purchasing agent related to bidders. 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/SB403 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB403 CA1.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB403 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB403 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB403 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB403 SFLR.PDF)
7. **SB403 (3-18-25) (STEWART) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB403 (3-18-25) (STEWART) RT FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- County And Municipal Government Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Government Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **14–2** (pass) · lower
- General Government — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cantrell — primary (person)
- Stewart — 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 Stewart
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Local and County Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Reported Do Pass as amended Local and County Government committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Title stricken
- **2025-02-13** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-24** General Order, Amended
- **2025-03-24** Title restored
- **2025-03-24** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-24** Coauthored by Representative Cantrell (principal House author)
- **2025-03-25** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-25** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Government Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to County and Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass County and Municipal Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-22** CR; Do Pass Government Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-29** General Order
- **2025-04-29** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 77 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-29** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-30** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-04-30** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-30** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/07/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8bbcaa4-11d8-4203-8b2e-8b824dc30642`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).