---
type: "Bill"
title: "County planning commission; personnel; chair of the board; composition of board. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "County planning commission; personnel; chair of the board; composition of board. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 563"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 563 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haste", "Staires"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2026-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3225ae6-cba4-4371-99ff-55e9a6776dbc"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB563&session=2600"
source_hash: "1928391d6c5730cd729926af6bd69c2d1d57f7bc5c6184a278fae73249123f0e"
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 563 (2026) — County planning commission; personnel; chair of the board; composition of board. Effective date. 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/SB563 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Amendment to Amendment by STAIRES (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB563 FA1-A1 STAIRESCL-GRS(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **1 Floor Amendment by STAIRES** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB563 FA1 STAIRESCL-MJ.PDF)
4. **2 Floor Amendment by STAIRES (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB563 FA2 STAIRESCL-GRS(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
5. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB563 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB563 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB563 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB563 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB563 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Fourth Reading — **41–5** (pass) · upper
- Government Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **10–6** (pass) · lower
- General Government — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- County And Municipal Government Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **80–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Haste — primary (person)
- Staires — 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 Haste
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Local and County Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Reported Do Pass Local and County Government committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-05** Coauthored by Representative Staires (principal House author)
- **2025-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** 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`
- **2026-04-29** General Order
- **2026-04-29** Laid over
- **2026-05-04** Considered
- **2026-05-04** Amended by floor substitute
- **2026-05-04** Emergency added
- **2026-05-04** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 80 Nays: 9 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-04** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-05-05** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2026-05-05** HAs read
- **2026-05-14** HAs adopted
- **2026-05-14** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2026-05-14** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-14** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-14** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-29** Approved by Governor 05/20/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3225ae6-cba4-4371-99ff-55e9a6776dbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).