---
type: "Bill"
title: "Court-appointed special advocates; clarifying standards for education and background checks; removing fee requirement. Effective date."
description: "Court-appointed special advocates; clarifying standards for education and background checks; removing fee requirement. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1344"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1344 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garvin", "Lawson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05ea216e-36c8-4f36-b8e3-dbea451f2229"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1344&session=2200"
source_hash: "2d3883856d370092edde0d447c06a1e6e82ebeab5fbb505c4dba5e172809360a"
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 1344 (2022) — Court-appointed special advocates; clarifying standards for education and background checks; removing fee requirement. 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/2021-22 INT/SB/SB1344 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB1344 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB1344 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB1344 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB1344 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB1344 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB1344 HCS.PDF)
8. **SB1344 FULLPCS1 MARK LAWSON-CMA.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB1344 FULLPCS1 MARK LAWSON-CMA.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Garvin — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Authored by Senator Garvin
- **2022-02-07** Coauthored by Representative Lawson (principal House author)
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-14** General Order, Considered
- **2022-02-14** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-02-15** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2022-02-15** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-29** Second Reading referred to Judiciary - Criminal `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary - Criminal Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-26** General Order
- **2022-04-26** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-04-27** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2022-04-27** HAs read
- **2022-05-16** HAs adopted
- **2022-05-16** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-05-17** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-05-17** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-20** Approved by Governor 05/20/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05ea216e-36c8-4f36-b8e3-dbea451f2229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).