republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2023/sb-849.md

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Bill	Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Act; modifying requirements for assistance provided to the Office by certain agency; providing for hiring of certain personnel. Emergency.	Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Act; modifying requirements for assistance provided to the Office by certain agency; providing for hiring of certain personnel. Emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2023	SB 849	Oklahoma SB 849 (2023)	bill		enacted	Caldwell (Trey) Paxton	10	40	0	2023-02-06	2023-06-06	openstates	ocd-bill/553f89b7-d73a-43c8-8b32-1489dbbfe798	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB849&session=2300	38d90fa0c5bfcc1120a08b0b9f9c9627478289e40315369a4e1a8ffcc796edff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 849 (2023) — Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Act; modifying requirements for assistance provided to the Office by certain agency; providing for hiring of certain personnel. 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/SB/SB849 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Amendment to Amendment by CALDWELL (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB849 FA1-A1 CALDWELLTR-MKS.PDF)
3. 1 Floor Amendment by CALDWELL (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB849 FA1 CALDWELLTR-MKS.PDF)
4. 2 Floor Amendment by OSBURN (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB849 FA2 OSBURNMI-CC.PDF)
5. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB849 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
6. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB849 ENGR.PDF)
7. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB849 ENR.PDF)
8. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB849 HFLR.PDF)
9. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB849 SFLR.PDF)
10. Senate Conference Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB849 CCS.PDF)

Sponsors

• Caldwell (Trey) — primary (person)
• Paxton — 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 Paxton
• 2023-02-07 Second Reading referred to Energy and Telecommunications reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-16 Reported Do Pass as amended Energy and Telecommunications committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2023-02-16 Title stricken
• 2023-03-09 Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Trey) (principal House author)
• 2023-03-21 General Order, Considered
• 2023-03-21 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 passage
• 2023-03-21 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-03-22 Engrossed to House passage
• 2023-03-22 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-03-29 Second Reading referred to Government Modernization and Technology reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 CR; Do Pass, as amended, Government Modernization and Technology Committee committee-passage
• 2023-04-11 Enacting clause stricken
• 2023-04-26 General Order
• 2023-04-26 Amended by floor substitute
• 2023-04-26 Title restored
• 2023-04-26 Enacting clause restored
• 2023-04-26 Amended amendment-passage
• 2023-04-26 Title stricken
• 2023-04-26 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 76 Nays: 2 passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-26 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-04-27 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2023-04-27 HAs read
• 2023-05-18 HAs rejected, conference requested amendment-failure
• 2023-05-18 SCs named Paxton, Garvin, Green, Haste, Kidd, Rader, Floyd
• 2023-05-19 Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Government Modernization and Technology
• 2023-05-22 CCR read
• 2023-05-22 Title restored
• 2023-05-24 CCR adopted
• 2023-05-24 Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 passage
• 2023-05-24 CCR submitted
• 2023-05-25 CCR adopted
• 2023-05-25 Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 96 Nays: 0 passage
• 2023-05-25 To Senate
• 2023-05-25 Referred for enrollment
• 2023-05-25 Enrolled, to House
• 2023-05-25 Signed, returned to Senate
• 2023-05-25 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-06 Approved by Governor 06/06/2023 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/553f89b7-d73a-43c8-8b32-1489dbbfe798. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).