republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2022/sb-714.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; absentee voting; modifying procedures for absentee ballots for certain electors. Emergency.	Elections; absentee voting; modifying procedures for absentee ballots for certain electors. Emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2022	SB 714	Oklahoma SB 714 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jech Newton	12	35	0	2021-02-01	2022-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/d6087e88-18b6-429d-ac5a-4ef909c10356	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB714&session=2200	df574e8cc42de8046e044713eb189e11b74cd7fbdecd7dc73ef89b7d0ea47b34	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 714 (2022) — Elections; absentee voting; modifying procedures for absentee ballots for certain electors. 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/SB714 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Floor Amendment by NEWTON (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB714 FA1 NEWTONCA-LRB.PDF)
3. 2 Floor Amendment by NEWTON (UNTIMELY FILED) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB714 FA2 NEWTONCA-LRB(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
4. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB714 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
5. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB714 CA1.PDF)
6. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB714 ENGR.PDF)
7. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB714 ENR.PDF)
8. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB714 HFLR.PDF)
9. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB714 SFLR.PDF)
10. House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB714 HCS.PDF)
11. SB714 FULLPCS1 CARL NEWTON-LRB.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB714 FULLPCS1 CARL NEWTON-LRB.PDF)
12. Senate Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB714 CS.PDF)

Sponsors

• Jech — primary (person)
• Newton — 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 Jech
• 2021-02-02 Second Reading referred to Rules reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-02-10 Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Rules committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2021-02-10 Emergency added
• 2021-02-19 Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author)
• 2021-03-08 General Order, Considered
• 2021-03-08 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 passage
• 2021-03-08 Referred for engrossment
• 2021-03-09 Engrossed to House passage
• 2021-03-09 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2021-03-16 Remove Representative Newton as principal House author and substitute with Representative Lowe (Dick)
• 2021-03-22 Remove Representative Lowe (Dick) as principal House author and substitute with Representative Newton
• 2021-03-22 Second Reading referred to Elections and Ethics reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Withdrawn from Elections and Ethics Committee
• 2021-03-24 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2021-03-31 Withdrawn from Rules Committee
• 2021-03-31 Referred to Elections and Ethics referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Elections and Ethics Committee committee-passage
• 2021-04-06 Coauthored by Representative(s) Pae
• 2022-04-06 General Order
• 2022-04-06 Coauthored by Senator(s) Bergstrom
• 2022-04-06 House Rule suspended
• 2022-04-06 Amended by floor substitute
• 2022-04-06 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 92 Nays: 1 passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-06 Referred for engrossment
• 2022-04-07 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2022-04-07 HAs read
• 2022-05-16 HAs adopted
• 2022-05-16 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 4 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/d6087e88-18b6-429d-ac5a-4ef909c10356. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).