---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Historical Society; directing the Oklahoma Historical Society to develop a grant program for the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail; creating certain revolving fund. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Oklahoma Historical Society; directing the Oklahoma Historical Society to develop a grant program for the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail; creating certain revolving fund. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 509"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 509 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowe (Jason)", "Matthews"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 41
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64fba123-54fe-4a91-9a5b-9679056a7254"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB509&session=2300"
source_hash: "0efe571976fe063db84a059479a5b9c5a2e5d6ef6a1b4865d38bebd56c85984b"
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 509 (2023) — Oklahoma Historical Society; directing the Oklahoma Historical Society to develop a grant program for the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail; creating certain revolving fund. Effective date. 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB509 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by MARTINEZ** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB509 FA1 MARTINEZRY-CC.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB509 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB509 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB509 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB509 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB509 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Lowe (Jason) — primary (person)
- Matthews — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Authored by Senator Matthews
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Tourism and Wildlife `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Coauthored by Senator Coleman
- **2023-02-13** Reported Do Pass Tourism and Wildlife committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Coauthored by Representative Lowe (Jason) (principal House author)
- **2023-02-13** Coauthored by Senator Bullard
- **2023-03-14** General Order, Considered
- **2023-03-14** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-14** Coauthored by Senator Jett
- **2023-03-20** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-03-20** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Tourism `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** CR; Do Pass Tourism Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-20** General Order
- **2023-04-20** Coauthored by Representative(s) Waldron
- **2023-04-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-20** Title stricken
- **2023-04-20** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-04-24** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-24** HAs read
- **2023-04-24** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2023-04-24** Coauthored by Representative Munson
- **2023-04-25** Coauthored by Representative Luttrell
- **2023-05-11** SCs named Matthews, Bullard, Pederson, Dahm, Stephens, Pemberton
- **2023-05-16** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Tourism
- **2023-05-18** CCR read
- **2023-05-18** Title restored
- **2023-05-25** CCR adopted
- **2023-05-25** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-25** CCR submitted
- **2023-05-26** CCR adopted
- **2023-05-26** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 94 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-26** To Senate
- **2023-05-26** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-05-26** Enrolled, to House
- **2023-05-26** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-05-26** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Approved by Governor 06/07/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64fba123-54fe-4a91-9a5b-9679056a7254`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).