---
type: "Bill"
title: "Absentee ballots; authorizing uniformed service member to receive certain absentee ballot. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Absentee ballots; authorizing uniformed service member to receive certain absentee ballot. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 814"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 814 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gollihare", "Hall"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a88e90a7-2604-4685-8938-de5d83ee1d5d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB814&session=2600"
source_hash: "c5734d9cfa940e09f7533136486b46135bbeb0f447bad8a108ef8aabce4d365a"
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 814 (2026) — Absentee ballots; authorizing uniformed service member to receive certain absentee ballot. 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/SB814 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB814 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB814 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB814 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB814 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Elections And Ethics Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Government Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gollihare — primary (person)
- Hall — 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 Gollihare
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25** Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author)
- **2025-02-27** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-12** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-12** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-13** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-13** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Government Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Elections and Ethics `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Remove Representative Newton as principal House author and substitute with Representative Hall
- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass Elections and Ethics `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Coauthored by Representative(s) Newton
- **2025-04-15** CR; Do Pass Government Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-29** General Order
- **2025-04-29** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 87 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`
- **2025-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/05/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a88e90a7-2604-4685-8938-de5d83ee1d5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).