republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2023/sb-376.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	Absentee voting; modifying procedures for marking and return of ballot for certain persons; clarifying signature requirement for certain affidavit. Effective date.	Absentee voting; modifying procedures for marking and return of ballot for certain persons; clarifying signature requirement for certain affidavit. Effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2023	SB 376	Oklahoma SB 376 (2023)	bill		enacted	Howard Newton	8	36	0	2023-02-06	2023-06-07	openstates	ocd-bill/a9da3cd2-5dd7-4cbd-82e3-8648c640c948	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB376&session=2300	b46db0531304dc9875cda200149bb80abb531308d76138572f0ce2af4cf63aae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 376 (2023) — Absentee voting; modifying procedures for marking and return of ballot for certain persons; clarifying signature requirement for certain affidavit. Effective date.

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/SB/SB376 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Floor Amendment by MARTINEZ (UNTIMELY FILED) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB376 FA1 MARTINEZRY-CC(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB376 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB376 ENGR.PDF)
5. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB376 ENR.PDF)
6. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB376 HFLR.PDF)
7. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB376 SFLR.PDF)
8. SB376 (3-13-23) (HOWARD) FS FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB376 (3-13-23) (HOWARD) FS FA1.PDF)

Sponsors

• Howard — primary (person)
• Newton — 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 Senator Howard
• 2023-02-07 Second Reading referred to Judiciary reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-14 Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2023-02-14 Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author)
• 2023-03-23 General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
• 2023-03-23 Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 2 passage
• 2023-03-23 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-03-27 Engrossed to House passage
• 2023-03-27 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-03-29 Second Reading referred to Elections and Ethics reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 CR; Do Pass Elections and Ethics Committee committee-passage
• 2023-04-19 General Order
• 2023-04-19 Amended amendment-passage
• 2023-04-19 Title stricken
• 2023-04-19 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 92 Nays: 0 passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-19 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-04-20 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2023-04-20 HAs read
• 2023-04-25 HAs rejected, conference requested amendment-failure
• 2023-05-11 SCs named Howard, Gollihare, Kirt, Jech, Hall, Pugh, Garvin
• 2023-05-18 Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Elections and Ethics
• 2023-05-23 CCR read
• 2023-05-23 Title restored
• 2023-05-25 CCR adopted
• 2023-05-25 Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 passage
• 2023-05-25 CCR submitted
• 2023-05-25 CCR adopted
• 2023-05-25 Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 92 Nays: 0 passage
• 2023-05-25 To Senate
• 2023-05-25 Referred for enrollment
• 2023-05-25 Coauthored by Senator Kirt
• 2023-05-26 Enrolled, to House
• 2023-05-26 Signed, returned to Senate
• 2023-05-26 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-07 Approved by Governor 06/07/2023 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a9da3cd2-5dd7-4cbd-82e3-8648c640c948. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).