---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business courts; creating business court divisions in certain judicial districts; providing for appointment of business court judges; specifying authority and jurisdiction of business court. Effective date."
description: "Business courts; creating business court divisions in certain judicial districts; providing for appointment of business court judges; specifying authority and jurisdiction of business court. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 632"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 632 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hilbert", "Paxton"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 44
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db78a269-47ad-485b-a517-b2603e020a76"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB632&session=2600"
source_hash: "2de86344d9583aab3a82cb094cdef75163e5515e3fed6c1a670a7458554957cd"
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 632 (2026) — Business courts; creating business court divisions in certain judicial districts; providing for appointment of business court judges; specifying authority and jurisdiction of business court. 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/SB632 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by HILBERT (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB632 FA1 HILBERTKY-MAH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **2 Floor Amendment by HILBERT (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB632 FA2 HILBERTKY-MAH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
4. **3 Floor Amendment by HILBERT (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB632 FA3 HILBERTKY-MAH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
5. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB632 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB632 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB632 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB632 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB632 SFLR.PDF)
10. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB632 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **71–19** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **39–7** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations — **21–3** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–6** (pass) · upper
- Civil Judiciary Committee: Do Pass — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary And Public Safety Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **77–12** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary — **5–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hilbert — primary (person)
- Paxton — 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 Paxton
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Judiciary Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25** Title stricken
- **2025-02-25** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Coauthored by Representative Hilbert (principal House author)
- **2025-03-05** Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-24** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-24** Measure passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 6 `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-25** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-25** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Civil Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Civil Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-22** CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-08** General Order
- **2025-05-08** Coauthored by Representative(s) Duel
- **2025-05-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-08** Title restored
- **2025-05-08** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 71 Nays: 19 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-12** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-12** HAs read
- **2025-05-19** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2025-05-19** SCs named Paxton, Howard, Daniels, Rader, Rosino, Pugh, Kirt
- **2025-05-19** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
- **2025-05-22** CCR read
- **2025-05-22** CCR rejected, further conference requested, same conferees
- **2025-05-27** Further conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
- **2025-05-27** 2 CCR read
- **2025-05-28** 2 CCR adopted
- **2025-05-28** Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 39 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2025-05-28** 2 CCR submitted
- **2025-05-28** 2 CCR adopted
- **2025-05-28** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 77 Nays: 12 `passage`
- **2025-05-28** To Senate
- **2025-05-28** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-28** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Approved by Governor 05/29/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db78a269-47ad-485b-a517-b2603e020a76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).