---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wildfire prevention; authorizing county employees to employ fire prevention activities on private land with permission. Effective date."
description: "Wildfire prevention; authorizing county employees to employ fire prevention activities on private land with permission. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 870"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 870 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Murdock", "Newton"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab444c37-19c4-4c7f-8f2f-ce75af6c7cbe"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB870&session=2000"
source_hash: "fc698dbb2887c2528d29c3133c2566d195cb99a1dbfbf7a9b55159f667dcb238"
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 870 (2020) — Wildfire prevention; authorizing county employees to employ fire prevention activities on private land with permission. Effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 INT/SB/SB870 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by NEWTON** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB870 FA1 NEWTONCA-AMM(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB870 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB870 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB870 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB870 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB870 SFLR.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB870 HCS.PDF)
9. **SB870 FULLPCS1 CARL NEWTON-AMM.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB870 FULLPCS1 CARL NEWTON-AMM.PDF)

## Votes

- FOURTH READING — **43–2** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Murdock — primary (person)
- Newton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Authored by Senator Murdock
- **2019-02-07** Second Reading referred to Agriculture and Wildlife `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Reported Do Pass Agriculture and Wildlife committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-26** Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author)
- **2019-03-05** General Order, Considered
- **2019-03-05** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-06** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Rules `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-02** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Rules Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** General Order
- **2019-04-25** House Rule suspended
- **2019-04-25** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-29** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-29** HAs read
- **2019-05-06** HAs adopted
- **2019-05-06** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2019-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-07** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-07** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-07** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-13** Approved by Governor 05/13/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab444c37-19c4-4c7f-8f2f-ce75af6c7cbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).