---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement systems; increasing maximum amount of total employer and employee contributions. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "County employees' retirement systems; increasing maximum amount of total employer and employee contributions. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 434"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 434 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rader", "Tedford"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ccdd2c08-496b-4e8f-97bc-27a9d2c57dff"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB434&session=2600"
source_hash: "af1060ece9af0a3adac3fcd654bf1338420190ec74f29f912ca3274737e5c858"
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 434 (2026) — County employees' retirement systems; increasing maximum amount of total employer and employee contributions. Effective date. Emergency.

## 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/SB434 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB434 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB434 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB434 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB434 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB434 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB434 HCS.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–5** (pass) · upper
- Banking, Financial Services And Pensions Committee: Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Government Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **39–4** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rader — primary (person)
- Tedford — 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 Senator Rader
- **2025-02-03** Coauthored by Representative Tedford (principal House author)
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Government Resources `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass as amended Retirement and Government Resources committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25** Title stricken
- **2025-02-27** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-26** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-26** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-27** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-27** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Government Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Banking, Financial Services and Pensions `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass Banking, Financial Services and Pensions `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Government Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** Title restored
- **2025-05-06** General Order
- **2025-05-06** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-07** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-07** HAs read
- **2025-05-13** HAs adopted
- **2025-05-13** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 4 `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-14** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-14** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/21/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ccdd2c08-496b-4e8f-97bc-27a9d2c57dff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).