---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections; prohibiting alteration or amendment of election procedures under certain circumstances. Emergency."
description: "Elections; prohibiting alteration or amendment of election procedures under certain circumstances. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 523"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 523 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lepak", "Paxton"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2022-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/829694f6-4ad4-49f5-8dd7-da85a303786d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB523&session=2200"
source_hash: "d3febf969f3e69948b6e92a5694ffce04d2380f40f5607411809f0a4e6d83225"
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 523 (2022) — Elections; prohibiting alteration or amendment of election procedures under certain circumstances. 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/SB/SB523 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by LEPAK (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB523 FA1 LEPAKMA-MAH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB523 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB523 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB523 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB523 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB523 SFLR.PDF)
8. **SB523 (2-19-21) (PAXTON) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB523 (2-19-21) (PAXTON) FA1.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Lepak — primary (person)
- Paxton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Authored by Senator Paxton
- **2021-02-01** Coauthored by Senator Bullard
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Reported Do Pass Rules committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Coauthored by Representative Lepak (principal House author)
- **2021-03-03** General Order, Amended
- **2021-03-03** Measure passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 8 `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-04** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-04** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to Elections and Ethics `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** CR; Do Pass Elections and Ethics Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31** Coauthored by Senator(s) Bergstrom, Jett
- **2022-04-27** General Order
- **2022-04-27** Coauthored by Representative(s) Roberts (Sean)
- **2022-04-27** Coauthored by Senator(s) Jech
- **2022-04-27** House Rule suspended
- **2022-04-27** Amended by floor substitute
- **2022-04-27** Emergency added
- **2022-04-27** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 71 Nays: 12 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-04-28** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2022-04-28** HAs read
- **2022-05-16** HAs adopted
- **2022-05-16** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 8 `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-05-17** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-05-17** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-20** Approved by Governor 05/20/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/829694f6-4ad4-49f5-8dd7-da85a303786d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).