---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employees; Civil Service and Human Capital Modernization Act; modifying powers and duties; Personnel Act; definitions; abolishing the Merit Protection Commission; transferring to Office of Management and Enterprise Services; emergency."
description: "State employees; Civil Service and Human Capital Modernization Act; modifying powers and duties; Personnel Act; definitions; abolishing the Merit Protection Commission; transferring to Office of Management and Enterprise Services; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 3420"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 3420 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Osburn", "Pugh"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/470e639b-9aef-4a78-8637-820d75978e54"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB3420&session=2200"
source_hash: "d3f933512d44903db8c4d120d28194cf83fb01872b0becf88cbd25dac6153462"
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 HB 3420 (2022) — State employees; Civil Service and Human Capital Modernization Act; modifying powers and duties; Personnel Act; definitions; abolishing the Merit Protection Commission; transferring to Office of Management and Enterprise Services; 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/2021-22 INT/hB/HB3420 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Amendment to Amendment by OSBURN** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB3420 FA1-A1 OSBURNMI-LRB.PDF)
3. **1 Floor Amendment by OSBURN** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB3420 FA1 OSBURNMI-LRB.PDF)
4. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/HB3420 SAHB & ENGR.PDF)
5. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB3420 CA1.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/hB/HB3420 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/hB/HB3420 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/HB3420 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/HB3420 SFLR.PDF)
10. **HB3420 FULLPCS1 MIKE OSBURN-LRB.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB3420 FULLPCS1 MIKE OSBURN-LRB.PDF)
11. **HB3420 FULLPCS2 MIKE OSBURN-LRB.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB3420 FULLPCS2 MIKE OSBURN-LRB.PDF)
12. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB3420 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Osburn — primary (person)
- Pugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Authored by Representative Osburn
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Rules Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** Authored by Senator Pugh (principal Senate author)
- **2022-03-02** Emergency added
- **2022-03-23** General Order
- **2022-03-23** Amended by floor substitute
- **2022-03-23** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-23** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-03-24** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2022-03-24** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-29** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-26** General Order, Considered
- **2022-04-26** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2022-04-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-04-27** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2022-04-27** SA's received
- **2022-05-09** SA's read, adopted
- **2022-05-09** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2022-05-09** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-05-10** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2022-05-10** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2022-05-10** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-11** Approved by Governor 05/11/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/470e639b-9aef-4a78-8637-820d75978e54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).