republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2023/hb-2053.md

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Bill	Water and water rights; application for permits to take and use groundwater; appeals; injunctive relief; emergency.	Water and water rights; application for permits to take and use groundwater; appeals; injunctive relief; emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2023	HB 2053	Oklahoma HB 2053 (2023)	bill		enacted	Hardin Howard	13	50	0	2023-02-06	2023-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/c0b1346a-6e6e-49e5-8a30-4b718d93e70a	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2053&session=2300	994e1badbfc2f0035f34ff1599a449a33e690b06e5bfa22bcf49f184ebe7d197	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 2053 (2023) — Water and water rights; application for permits to take and use groundwater; appeals; injunctive relief; 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/2023-24 INT/hB/HB2053 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Floor Amendment by MARTINEZ (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB2053 FA1 MARTINEZRY-CC.PDF)
3. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/HB2053 SAHB & ENGR.PDF)
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/hB/HB2053 ENGR.PDF)
5. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/hB/HB2053 ENR.PDF)
6. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/HB2053 HFLR.PDF)
7. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/HB2053 SFLR.PDF)
8. HB2053 (4-24-23) (HOWARD) FS FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB2053 (4-24-23) (HOWARD) FS FA1.PDF)
9. HB2053 (4-24-23) (HOWARD) RT FA2.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB2053 (4-24-23) (HOWARD) RT FA2.PDF)
10. HB2053 FULLAMD1 DAVID HARDIN-MAH.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB2053 FULLAMD1 DAVID HARDIN-MAH.PDF)
11. HB2053 FULLPCS1 DAVID HARDIN-MAH.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB2053 FULLPCS1 DAVID HARDIN-MAH.PDF)
12. House Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB2053 CS.PDF)
13. House Conference Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCCS/HB2053 CCS.PDF)

Sponsors

• Hardin — primary (person)
• Howard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-06 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-06 Authored by Representative Hardin
• 2023-02-07 Second Reading referred to Agriculture reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-15 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Agriculture Committee committee-passage
• 2023-02-15 Authored by Senator Howard (principal Senate author)
• 2023-02-15 Emergency added
• 2023-03-22 General Order
• 2023-03-22 Amended amendment-passage
• 2023-03-22 Title stricken
• 2023-03-22 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 74 Nays: 11 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-22 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-03-23 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2023-03-23 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-03-30 Second Reading referred to Energy and Telecommunications reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-06 Reported Do Pass as amended Energy and Telecommunications committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2023-04-06 Enacting clause stricken
• 2023-04-06 Coauthored by Senator Woods
• 2023-04-25 General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
• 2023-04-25 Title restored
• 2023-04-25 Enacting clause restored
• 2023-04-25 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 9 passage
• 2023-04-25 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-04-25 Coauthored by Representative Fetgatter
• 2023-04-25 Coauthored by Representative West (Josh)
• 2023-04-25 Coauthored by Representative Sims
• 2023-04-26 Engrossed to House passage
• 2023-04-26 SA's received
• 2023-05-09 SA's rejected, conference requested, conferees to be named later
• 2023-05-15 HC's named: Conference Committee on Agriculture
• 2023-05-17 Naming of conferees rescinded
• 2023-05-18 HC's named: Conference Committee on Agriculture
• 2023-05-18 Conference granted, SCs named Howard, Paxton, Green, Kidd, Boren
• 2023-05-19 CCR submitted
• 2023-05-19 Remove as coauthor Representative(s) West (Josh)
• 2023-05-19 Coauthored by Representative(s) Kerbs, Archer, Lowe (Dick), Caldwell (Trey), Moore, Burns, Newton, Grego, Patzkowsky
• 2023-05-22 CCR adopted
• 2023-05-22 Remove as coauthor Representative(s) Sims
• 2023-05-22 Coauthored by Representative(s) Dobrinski
• 2023-05-22 Coauthored by Senator(s) Pederson
• 2023-05-22 Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 75 Nays: 16 passage
• 2023-05-22 To Senate
• 2023-05-22 CCR read
• 2023-05-25 CCR adopted
• 2023-05-25 Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 40 Nays: 2 passage
• 2023-05-25 Coauthored by Senator Bergstrom
• 2023-05-25 Referred for enrollment
• 2023-05-26 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2023-05-26 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2023-05-26 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-26 Approved by Governor 06/07/2023 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0b1346a-6e6e-49e5-8a30-4b718d93e70a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).