---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Environmental Quality; establishing Blue River-Little Blue Creek Stream Health Assessment Study; establishing revolving fund for certain purpose. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Department of Environmental Quality; establishing Blue River-Little Blue Creek Stream Health Assessment Study; establishing revolving fund for certain purpose. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1273"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1273 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alvord", "Townley"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 42
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f93528c7-e1ad-4cd0-b767-6caf287e73a6"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1273&session=2400"
source_hash: "771edd70a0dc9ab7d33dc4446a407a098fb37be8453306394c8a1e6cce22f863"
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 1273 (2024) — Department of Environmental Quality; establishing Blue River-Little Blue Creek Stream Health Assessment Study; establishing revolving fund for certain purpose. 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/SB1273 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by GREGO (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB1273 FA1 GREGOJI-JBH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB1273 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1273 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1273 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1273 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB1273 SFLR.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB1273 HCS.PDF)
9. **SB1273 (3-07-24) (ALVORD) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1273 (3-07-24) (ALVORD) FA1.PDF)
10. **Sub Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB1273 SUBREC.PDF)

## Votes

- Fourth Reading — **88–3** (pass) · lower
- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **34–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–7** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Tourism & Wildlife — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **40–3** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alvord — primary (person)
- Townley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-05** Authored by Senator Alvord
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Tourism and Wildlife Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Reported Do Pass Tourism and Wildlife committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-12** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Coauthored by Representative Townley (principal House author)
- **2024-02-28** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-28** Title stricken
- **2024-03-11** General Order, Amended
- **2024-03-11** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2024-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-11** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-11** Enacting clause stricken
- **2024-04-25** House Rule suspended
- **2024-04-25** General Order
- **2024-04-25** Coauthored by Representative(s) Deck
- **2024-04-25** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-25** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-04-29** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2024-04-29** HAs read
- **2024-04-30** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2024-04-30** SCs named Alvord, Bullard, Pederson, Garvin, Dossett
- **2024-05-20** Conference granted, naming GCCA
- **2024-05-23** CCR read
- **2024-05-29** CCR adopted
- **2024-05-29** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 40 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2024-05-29** CCR submitted
- **2024-05-30** CCR adopted
- **2024-05-30** Coauthored by Representative(s) Provenzano
- **2024-05-30** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2024-05-30** To Senate
- **2024-05-30** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-05-30** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-05-30** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-14** Approved by Governor 06/14/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f93528c7-e1ad-4cd0-b767-6caf287e73a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).