---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Act; modifying requirements for assistance provided to the Office by certain agency; providing for hiring of certain personnel. Emergency."
description: "Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Act; modifying requirements for assistance provided to the Office by certain agency; providing for hiring of certain personnel. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 849"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 849 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Trey)", "Paxton"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/426c6bb8-50be-414b-b6df-b88264c3fcdb"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB849&session=2400"
source_hash: "326c8d5c5a6ce25391a0ff2fdfa952ed6e31fe9ceba9dd3319f976dbccdcf8b3"
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 849 (2024) — Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Act; modifying requirements for assistance provided to the Office by certain agency; providing for hiring of certain personnel. 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/SB/SB849 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Amendment to Amendment by CALDWELL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB849 FA1-A1 CALDWELLTR-MKS.PDF)
3. **1 Floor Amendment by CALDWELL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB849 FA1 CALDWELLTR-MKS.PDF)
4. **2 Floor Amendment by OSBURN** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB849 FA2 OSBURNMI-CC.PDF)
5. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB849 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB849 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB849 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB849 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB849 SFLR.PDF)
10. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB849 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- Committee On Energy & Telecommunications: Strike The Title, Motion By Senator Paxton - Adopted — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **76–2** (pass) · lower
- Energy & Telecommunications — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Government Modernization And Technology Committee: Do Pass As Amended, Strike The Enacting Clause — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Trey) — primary (person)
- Paxton — 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 Senator Paxton
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Energy and Telecommunications `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported Do Pass as amended Energy and Telecommunications committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Title stricken
- **2023-03-09** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Trey) (principal House author)
- **2023-03-21** General Order, Considered
- **2023-03-21** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-21** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-22** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-03-22** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Government Modernization and Technology `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** CR; Do Pass, as amended, Government Modernization and Technology Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Enacting clause stricken
- **2023-04-26** General Order
- **2023-04-26** Amended by floor substitute
- **2023-04-26** Title restored
- **2023-04-26** Enacting clause restored
- **2023-04-26** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-26** Title stricken
- **2023-04-26** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 76 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-04-27** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-27** HAs read
- **2023-05-18** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2023-05-18** SCs named Paxton, Garvin, Green, Haste, Kidd, Rader, Floyd
- **2023-05-19** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Government Modernization and Technology
- **2023-05-22** CCR read
- **2023-05-22** Title restored
- **2023-05-24** CCR adopted
- **2023-05-24** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-24** CCR submitted
- **2023-05-25** CCR adopted
- **2023-05-25** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 96 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-25** To Senate
- **2023-05-25** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-05-25** Enrolled, to House
- **2023-05-25** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-05-25** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Approved by Governor 06/06/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/426c6bb8-50be-414b-b6df-b88264c3fcdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).