---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile bureaus; salaries and expenses; limitations; effective date."
description: "Juvenile bureaus; salaries and expenses; limitations; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1579"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1579 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lawson", "Rosino"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1762eead-354d-434f-9309-548614b21c89"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1579&session=2600"
source_hash: "21ca4e06c1677e07b6053cfbaa320c318f4095b8add4ca6eb9c98e2a4dd72e4f"
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 1579 (2026) — Juvenile bureaus; salaries and expenses; limitations; effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/hB/HB1579 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1579 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1579 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1579 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1579 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Health & Human Services — **10–2** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **79–4** (pass) · lower
- Advance — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass — **31–0** (pass) · lower
- Appropriations And Budget Human Services Subcommittee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **41–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lawson — primary (person)
- Rosino — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Authored by Representative Lawson
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Appropriations and Budget `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Human Services Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Human Services Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26** Authored by Senator Rosino (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-12** General Order
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-13** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-13** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on General Order
- **2025-04-22** General Order, Considered
- **2025-04-22** Measure passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-23** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-04-23** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-04-23** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-30** Becomes law without Governor's signature 04/30/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1762eead-354d-434f-9309-548614b21c89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).