republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2022/sb-523.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Elections; prohibiting alteration or amendment of election procedures under certain circumstances. Emergency.	Elections; prohibiting alteration or amendment of election procedures under certain circumstances. Emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2022	SB 523	Oklahoma SB 523 (2022)	bill		enacted	Lepak Paxton	8	31	0	2021-02-01	2022-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/829694f6-4ad4-49f5-8dd7-da85a303786d	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB523&session=2200	d3febf969f3e69948b6e92a5694ffce04d2380f40f5607411809f0a4e6d83225	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 523 (2022) — Elections; prohibiting alteration or amendment of election procedures under certain circumstances. 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/2021-22 INT/SB/SB523 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Floor Amendment by LEPAK (UNTIMELY FILED) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB523 FA1 LEPAKMA-MAH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB523 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB523 ENGR.PDF)
5. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB523 ENR.PDF)
6. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB523 HFLR.PDF)
7. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB523 SFLR.PDF)
8. SB523 (2-19-21) (PAXTON) FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB523 (2-19-21) (PAXTON) FA1.PDF)

Sponsors

• Lepak — primary (person)
• Paxton — 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
• 2021-02-01 Coauthored by Senator Bullard
• 2021-02-02 Second Reading referred to Rules reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-02-10 Reported Do Pass Rules committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2021-02-18 Coauthored by Representative Lepak (principal House author)
• 2021-03-03 General Order, Amended
• 2021-03-03 Measure passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 8 passage
• 2021-03-03 Referred for engrossment
• 2021-03-04 Engrossed to House passage
• 2021-03-04 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2021-03-22 Second Reading referred to Elections and Ethics reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-31 CR; Do Pass Elections and Ethics Committee committee-passage
• 2021-03-31 Coauthored by Senator(s) Bergstrom, Jett
• 2022-04-27 General Order
• 2022-04-27 Coauthored by Representative(s) Roberts (Sean)
• 2022-04-27 Coauthored by Senator(s) Jech
• 2022-04-27 House Rule suspended
• 2022-04-27 Amended by floor substitute
• 2022-04-27 Emergency added
• 2022-04-27 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 71 Nays: 12 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 and Emergency passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 8 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; origin ocd-bill/829694f6-4ad4-49f5-8dd7-da85a303786d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).