---
type: "Bill"
title: "Memorial highways and bridges; designating various memorial highways and bridges. Effective date."
description: "Memorial highways and bridges; designating various memorial highways and bridges. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 61"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 61 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jech", "Johns"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6391901b-0944-4518-83df-b4165e25ac22"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB61&session=2600"
source_hash: "e36d87783cc417565a9811be50b420db8eb93b05605e0ad28d1fbba75dc2d1ef"
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 61 (2026) — Memorial highways and bridges; designating various memorial highways and bridges. 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/SB61 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB61 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB61 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB61 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB61 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB61 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB61 HCS.PDF)
8. **Policy Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB61 POLREC.PDF)
9. **Proposed Policy Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB61 POLAMD1 RONNY JOHNS-JBH.PDF)
10. **SB61 (3-18-25) (JECH) FS FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB61 (3-18-25) (JECH) FS FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- Aeronautics & Transportation — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- Transportation Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jech — primary (person)
- Johns — 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 Bullard
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Aeronautics and Transportation `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported Do Pass Aeronautics and Transportation committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-17** Remove as author Senator Bullard; authored by Senator Jech
- **2025-03-17** Coauthored by Senator Bullard
- **2025-03-25** Coauthored by Representative Johns (principal House author)
- **2025-03-26** General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
- **2025-03-26** Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-27** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-27** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Coauthored by Representative(s) CrosswhiteHader, Luttrell
- **2025-04-23** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-23** Coauthored by Representative(s) Shaw, Maynard
- **2025-04-29** General Order
- **2025-04-29** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-04-30** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-30** HAs read
- **2025-05-12** Coauthored by Senator Green
- **2025-05-13** Coauthored by Senator Kirt
- **2025-05-13** HAs adopted
- **2025-05-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-14** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-14** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/21/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6391901b-0944-4518-83df-b4165e25ac22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).