---
type: "Bill"
title: "County sheriffs; allowing county sheriff to contract with private security to guard prisoners temporarily housed outside jail for medical treatment. Effective date."
description: "County sheriffs; allowing county sheriff to contract with private security to guard prisoners temporarily housed outside jail for medical treatment. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1668"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1668 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haste", "Sims"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed6ba0f1-e8e1-48f1-a0cd-105d68c5a61e"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1668&session=2400"
source_hash: "c24177f14b9ac9a557732e90e9707baad7cc151ca07febe599a5163367bc5d8e"
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 1668 (2024) — County sheriffs; allowing county sheriff to contract with private security to guard prisoners temporarily housed outside jail for medical treatment. Effective date.

## 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/SB/SB1668 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by SIMS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB1668 FA1 SIMSLO-MJ.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB1668 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1668 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1668 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1668 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB1668 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **84–3** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Criminal Justice And Corrections Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Public Safety — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haste — primary (person)
- Sims — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-05** Authored by Senator Haste
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Public Safety `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Reported Do Pass Public Safety committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Coauthored by Representative Sims (principal House author)
- **2024-03-07** General Order, Considered
- **2024-03-07** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-03-11** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2024-03-11** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Second Reading referred to Criminal Justice and Corrections `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** CR; Do Pass Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-16** General Order
- **2024-04-16** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-16** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-04-17** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2024-04-17** HAs read
- **2024-05-15** HAs adopted
- **2024-05-15** Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-05-16** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-05-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-05-16** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Approved by Governor 05/20/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed6ba0f1-e8e1-48f1-a0cd-105d68c5a61e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).