---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties and county officers; feeding, care, housing, and upkeep of prisoners; authorizing county sheriff to contract with certain entities. Emergency."
description: "Counties and county officers; feeding, care, housing, and upkeep of prisoners; authorizing county sheriff to contract with certain entities. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 279"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 279 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martinez", "Pugh"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2018-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/136bc080-a38c-4ff2-93a3-f0e7107bbae4"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB279&session=1800"
source_hash: "70fcc5bed60d67858dc236851352f96326a20d6f84413e2c85bc8d61e2c9660f"
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 279 (2017-2018) — Counties and county officers; feeding, care, housing, and upkeep of prisoners; authorizing county sheriff to contract with certain entities. Emergency.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 INT/SB/SB279 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB279 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENGR/SB/SB279 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENR/SB/SB279 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/HFLR/SB279 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/SFLR/SB279 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB279 HCS.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- FOURTH READING — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Authored by Senator Newberry
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading referred to General Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Reported Do Pass as amended General Government committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Coauthored by Representative Mulready (principal House author)
- **2017-03-22** General Order, Amended
- **2017-03-22** Title stricken
- **2017-03-22** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-22** Referred for engrossment
- **2017-03-23** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2017-03-23** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** Second Reading referred to County and Municipal Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute County and Municipal Government Committee `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Remove Representative Mulready as principal House author and substitute with Representative Martinez
- **2018-03-01** Coauthored by Representative(s) Mulready
- **2018-03-01** Remove Senator Newberry as principal Senate author and substitute with Senator Pugh
- **2018-03-01** Title restored
- **2018-03-01** Emergency added
- **2018-03-08** General Order
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-08** Referred for engrossment
- **2018-03-12** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2018-03-12** HAs read
- **2018-04-04** HAs adopted
- **2018-04-04** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Referred for enrollment
- **2018-04-05** Enrolled, to House
- **2018-04-05** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2018-04-05** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-11** Approved by Governor 04/11/2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/136bc080-a38c-4ff2-93a3-f0e7107bbae4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).