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---
type: "Bill"
title: "State government; creating the Office of Homeland Security within the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management."
description: "State government; creating the Office of Homeland Security within the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 488"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 488 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paxton", "Sims"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2022-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cb29dd1-aec4-49c0-93d0-77810d4e5c0d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB488&session=2200"
source_hash: "926b72312d8ed524c1e1bc27f291d230342008247768d2c0d650636a13701805"
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 488 (2022) — State government; creating the Office of Homeland Security within the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.
## 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/2021-22 INT/SB/SB488 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by SIMS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB488 FA1 SIMSLO-LRB.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB488 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB488 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB488 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB488 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB488 SFLR.PDF)
## Sponsors
- Paxton — primary (person)
- Sims — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-01** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Authored by Senator Paxton
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to General Government Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Reported Do Pass General Government committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03** Coauthored by Representative Sims (principal House author)
- **2021-03-08** General Order, Considered
- **2021-03-08** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-09** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-09** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Referred to Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-08** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-27** General Order
- **2022-04-27** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-27** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 77 Nays: 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-04-28** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2022-04-28** HAs read
- **2022-05-16** HAs adopted
- **2022-05-16** Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-05-17** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-05-17** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-20** Approved by Governor 05/20/2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7cb29dd1-aec4-49c0-93d0-77810d4e5c0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).