---
type: "Bill"
title: "County election boards; authorizing certain actions by assistant secretary under specified circumstances. Effective date."
description: "County election boards; authorizing certain actions by assistant secretary under specified circumstances. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 536"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 536 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard", "Kendrix"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79512139-bd69-42b1-8061-70b9857038ec"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB536&session=2600"
source_hash: "b874913e9daca804f585017e616f01e8c6116b356239e77edeb348546a0a98c8"
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 536 (2026) — County election boards; authorizing certain actions by assistant secretary under specified circumstances. 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/SB536 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB536 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB536 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB536 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB536 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Government Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- Elections And Ethics Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howard — primary (person)
- Kendrix — 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 Howard
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-03** Coauthored by Representative Kendrix (principal House author)
- **2025-03-05** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-05** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-06** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Government Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Elections and Ethics `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass Elections and Ethics `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15** CR; Do Pass Government Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-06** General Order
- **2025-05-06** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-07** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-07** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-07** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/14/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79512139-bd69-42b1-8061-70b9857038ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).