---
type: "Bill"
title: "Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges; authorizing benefit increase for certain retired members. Effective dates."
description: "Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges; authorizing benefit increase for certain retired members. Effective dates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1148"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1148 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Trey)", "Hall"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2026-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/553285b7-b7d8-4dc4-9059-95731519b2fc"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1148&session=2600"
source_hash: "354b9c0e7692332cc702b87b27644baa95a12d1f74a70dfb1e9194dd1f4c4da9"
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 1148 (2026) — Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges; authorizing benefit increase for certain retired members. Effective dates.

## 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/SB/SB1148 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1148 PCS.PDF)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1148 CS.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1148 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1148 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1148 HFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **80–5** (pass) · lower
- Joint Committee On Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **25–0** (pass) · lower
- Joint Committee On Appropriations And Budget — **24–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Trey) — primary (person)
- Hall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-31** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-31** Authored by Senator Hall
- **2025-03-31** Coauthored by Senator Haste
- **2025-03-31** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Trey) (principal House author)
- **2025-03-31** Coauthored by Representative Kane
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-13** Coauthored by Representative Blancett
- **2026-04-13** Coauthored by Representative Fugate
- **2026-04-13** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget committee; JCR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-13** Emergency removed
- **2026-04-14** Coauthored by Representative Hefner
- **2026-04-14** JCR adopted
- **2026-04-14** Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 10 `passage`
- **2026-04-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-04-14** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-04-14** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-04-15** Second Reading, direct to Joint Calendar
- **2026-04-16** General Order
- **2026-04-16** Remove as coauthor Representative(s) Fugate
- **2026-04-16** Coauthored by Representative(s) Turner, Marti, Dollens
- **2026-04-16** JCR adopted
- **2026-04-16** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 80 Nays: 5 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-16** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-04-16** Coauthored by Representative Waldron
- **2026-04-16** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-04-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-16** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-23** Becomes law without Governor's signature 04/23/2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/553285b7-b7d8-4dc4-9059-95731519b2fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).