---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes and punishments; creating felony offense related to copper theft. Effective date."
description: "Crimes and punishments; creating felony offense related to copper theft. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1232"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1232 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coleman", "Dempsey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/560cc662-e765-4af9-867a-cd4cdb8fdccb"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1232&session=2600"
source_hash: "3f4411f4e23582156224a9fa8f3b053005f357adedd18443b36ca424189ca12b"
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 1232 (2026) — Crimes and punishments; creating felony offense related to copper theft. 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/SB/SB1232 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1232 CA1.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1232 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1232 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1232 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1232 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Criminal Judiciary Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary And Public Safety Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–4** (pass) · upper
- Judiciary — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **89–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Coleman — primary (person)
- Dempsey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Authored by Senator Coleman
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Judiciary Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-17** Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-17** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-23** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2026-02-23** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-02** Coauthored by Representative Dempsey (principal House author)
- **2026-03-23** General Order, Considered
- **2026-03-23** Measure passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 4 `passage`
- **2026-03-23** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-24** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-24** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to Criminal Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Criminal Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-14** CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-28** General Order
- **2026-04-28** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-28** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-04-29** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-29** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/01/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/560cc662-e765-4af9-867a-cd4cdb8fdccb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).