---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Tourism Development Act; increasing cumulative inducement per year. Effective date."
description: "Oklahoma Tourism Development Act; increasing cumulative inducement per year. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 249 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thompson (Kristen)", "Townley"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/306e4bb3-6ab2-46f1-94c8-79ababb5b75f"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB249&session=2600"
source_hash: "ba3c831583a2d4098904fb9a0f1801bb9147628ca3dc6fea08de7ef54b7b54d1"
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 249 (2026) — Oklahoma Tourism Development Act; increasing cumulative inducement per year. Effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/SB/SB249 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB249 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB249 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB249 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB249 SFLR.PDF)
6. **SB249 (3-10-25) (THOMPSON) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB249 (3-10-25) (THOMPSON) FA1.PDF)
7. **SB249 (3-10-25) (THOMPSON) WDFA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB249 (3-10-25) (THOMPSON) WDFA1.PDF)
8. **SB249 (3-17-25) (THOMPSON) FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB249 (3-17-25) (THOMPSON) FA2.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **59–26** (pass) · lower
- Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **14–3** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **43–3** (pass) · upper
- Tourism Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **6–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thompson (Kristen) — primary (person)
- Townley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Authored by Senator Thompson
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism Committee then to Revenue and Taxation Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Reported Do Pass Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Revenue and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Coauthored by Representative Townley (principal House author)
- **2025-03-03** Reported Do Pass Revenue and Taxation committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-26** General Order, Amended
- **2025-03-26** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-27** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-27** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Tourism `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-29** General Order
- **2025-04-29** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 59 Nays: 26 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-29** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-30** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-04-30** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-30** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/07/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/306e4bb3-6ab2-46f1-94c8-79ababb5b75f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).