---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Arts Council; authorizing Council to create endowment fund for certain purpose; providing for expenditures. Emergency."
description: "Oklahoma Arts Council; authorizing Council to create endowment fund for certain purpose; providing for expenditures. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 257"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 257 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coleman", "Hasenbeck"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2022-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/907c5001-a064-4238-9e91-7a440631740b"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB257&session=2200"
source_hash: "ac096d3b44336efc9d61ac86df5f18ce2fdef11073a7285001d1bfc963ecf6d2"
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 257 (2022) — Oklahoma Arts Council; authorizing Council to create endowment fund for certain purpose; providing for expenditures. Emergency.

## 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/SB257 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB257 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB257 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB257 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB257 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Coleman — primary (person)
- Hasenbeck — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Authored by Senator Kirt
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to General Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Coauthored by Representative Hasenbeck (principal House author)
- **2021-02-18** Remove as author Senator Kirt; authored by Senator Coleman
- **2021-02-25** Reported Do Pass General Government committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-01** Coauthored by Senator Kirt
- **2021-03-04** General Order, Considered
- **2021-03-04** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 9 `passage`
- **2021-03-04** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-08** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-08** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to General Government `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** Withdrawn from General Government Committee
- **2021-04-06** Referred to Appropriations and Budget `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-14** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-14** Coauthored by Representative(s) Fugate, Blancett, Munson
- **2022-04-27** General Order
- **2022-04-27** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 8 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-27** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-27** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-04-28** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-04-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-28** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-02** Approved by Governor 05/02/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/907c5001-a064-4238-9e91-7a440631740b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).