---
type: "Bill"
title: "State contract employees; directing state agencies report number of contract employees; pay; reports; granting the Office of Management and Enterprise Services certain rulemaking authority; effective date."
description: "State contract employees; directing state agencies report number of contract employees; pay; reports; granting the Office of Management and Enterprise Services certain rulemaking authority; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1607"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1607 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gise", "Kern"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd78671d-ef97-466f-bc7d-a4e6270ed919"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1607&session=2600"
source_hash: "be1d139228bb9ee0007064afbf78c58830356631c87c1199e31784be1a8cab1e"
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 1607 (2026) — State contract employees; directing state agencies report number of contract employees; pay; reports; granting the Office of Management and Enterprise Services certain rulemaking authority; 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/HB1607 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/HB1607 SAHB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1607 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1607 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1607 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1607 SFLR.PDF)
7. **HB1607 (4-22-25) (KERN) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB1607 (4-22-25) (KERN) FA1.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1607 CS.PDF)
9. **Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1607 POLPCS1 EMILY GISE-MJ.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **90–1** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gise — primary (person)
- Kern — 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 Gise
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Rules Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26** Coauthored by Representative(s) Pae
- **2025-03-03** General Order
- **2025-03-03** Coauthored by Representative(s) Hefner
- **2025-03-03** Authored by Senator Kern (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-03** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 96 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-04** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-04** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** Coauthored by Representative Pittman
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Government Resources `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported Do Pass Retirement and Government Resources committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Placed on General Order
- **2025-05-08** General Order, Amended
- **2025-05-08** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-05-12** SA's received
- **2025-05-21** SA's read, adopted
- **2025-05-21** Coauthored by Representative(s) Pogemiller
- **2025-05-21** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-05-21** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-05-21** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Approved by Governor 05/23/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd78671d-ef97-466f-bc7d-a4e6270ed919`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).