---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; establishing provisions for return to service in a volunteer firefighter capacity. Effective date."
description: "Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; establishing provisions for return to service in a volunteer firefighter capacity. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1524"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1524 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Green", "Sterling"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02c98080-0c77-4247-b0d1-4d5fbee395d7"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1524&session=2400"
source_hash: "5eb9e4965539fd1089bc300065d963880ae8b3c8d142b381c9d93c16d51181de"
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 1524 (2024) — Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; establishing provisions for return to service in a volunteer firefighter capacity. 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB1524 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1524 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1524 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1524 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB1524 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Banking, Financial Services And Pensions Committee: Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Retirement & Insurance — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Green — primary (person)
- Sterling — 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 Green
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Reported Do Pass Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-12** Coauthored by Representative Sterling (principal House author)
- **2024-03-14** General Order, Considered
- **2024-03-14** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-03-18** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2024-03-18** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Second Reading referred to Banking, Financial Services and Pensions `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** CR; Do Pass Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-01** Coauthored by Senator(s) Stephens
- **2024-04-15** General Order
- **2024-04-15** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-15** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-04-16** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-04-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-16** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-18** Approved by Governor 04/18/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02c98080-0c77-4247-b0d1-4d5fbee395d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).