---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; automobiles owned by the state; exception; authorizing certain use of state-owned vehicles for the Office of the Attorney General; emergency."
description: "Motor vehicles; automobiles owned by the state; exception; authorizing certain use of state-owned vehicles for the Office of the Attorney General; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2253"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2253 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burns", "Jech"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/196006b5-7e31-4c43-9316-957bb89f2e56"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2253&session=2300"
source_hash: "0ab86d15f100b95ddd2308de0525075d0bd98418d5e706dd88546f8520b5aa01"
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 2253 (2023) — Motor vehicles; automobiles owned by the state; exception; authorizing certain use of state-owned vehicles for the Office of the Attorney General; 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/2023-24 INT/hB/HB2253 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by BURNS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB2253 FA1 BURNSTY-JBH.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/hB/HB2253 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/hB/HB2253 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/HB2253 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/HB2253 SFLR.PDF)
7. **HB2253 FULLPCS1 TY BURNS-JBH.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB2253 FULLPCS1 TY BURNS-JBH.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB2253 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Burns — primary (person)
- Jech — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Authored by Representative Burns
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to General Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute General Government Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-14** General Order
- **2023-03-14** Authored by Senator Jech (principal Senate author)
- **2023-03-14** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-14** Emergency added
- **2023-03-14** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 86 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-20** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-20** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-25** General Order, Considered
- **2023-04-25** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-04-26** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2023-04-26** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2023-04-26** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-02** Approved by Governor 05/02/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/196006b5-7e31-4c43-9316-957bb89f2e56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).