---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms; prohibiting certain contracts with governmental entities. Effective date."
description: "Firearms; prohibiting certain contracts with governmental entities. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 500"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 500 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Murdock", "West (Kevin)"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23831f24-b51d-4db1-9c74-f21eb9be95e4"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB500&session=2600"
source_hash: "72587139049ac416832967874fb87a7f74488045ff3409e820469cac19f1b2bc"
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 500 (2026) — Firearms; prohibiting certain contracts with governmental entities. 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/SB500 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB500 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB500 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB500 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB500 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–8** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **73–16** (pass) · lower
- State Powers Committee: Do Pass — **4–1** (pass) · lower
- Public Safety — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Government Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **13–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Murdock — primary (person)
- West (Kevin) — 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 Murdock
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Public Safety `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Reported Do Pass Public Safety committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Coauthored by Senator Bullard
- **2025-02-24** Placed on General Order
- **2025-02-24** Coauthored by Representative West (Kevin) (principal House author)
- **2025-03-26** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-26** Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 8 `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 General Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Withdrawn from General Government Committee
- **2025-04-03** Referred to State Powers `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass State Powers `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-17** CR; Do Pass Government Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-17** Coauthored by Representative(s) Banning, Maynard, Adams
- **2025-04-17** Coauthored by Senator(s) Frix
- **2025-04-28** General Order
- **2025-04-28** Coauthored by Representative(s) Wilk, Archer, Staires
- **2025-04-28** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 73 Nays: 16 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-28** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-29** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/03/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23831f24-b51d-4db1-9c74-f21eb9be95e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).