republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2024/sb-473.md

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Bill	Courts; establishing certain judicial offices; creating Task Force for the Study of Business Courts. Effective date. Emergency.	Courts; establishing certain judicial offices; creating Task Force for the Study of Business Courts. Effective date. Emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2024	SB 473	Oklahoma SB 473 (2024)	bill		enacted	ODonnell Treat	14	49	6	2023-02-06	2024-05-31	openstates	ocd-bill/9bcf2f9a-ef2f-4551-a967-7b4b481a08f5	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB473&session=2400	d7c6ba9f5720d43c01edcc3e5c3a181e2a2d7962e3bbc2669a938cff3079639f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 473 (2024) — Courts; establishing certain judicial offices; creating Task Force for the Study of Business Courts. Effective date. 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/SB473 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Amendment to Amendment by BLANCETT (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB473 FA1-A1 BLANCETTME-MAH.PDF)
3. 1 Floor Amendment by HILBERT (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB473 FA1 HILBERTKY-MAH.PDF)
4. 2 Amendment to Amendment by BLANCETT (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB473 FA1-A2 BLANCETTME-MAH.PDF)
5. 3 Amendment to Amendment by HILBERT (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB473 FA1-A3 HILBERTKY-MAH.PDF)
6. 4 Amendment to Amendment by OSBURN (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB473 FA1-A4 OSBURNMI-CC.PDF)
7. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB473 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
8. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB473 ENGR.PDF)
9. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB473 ENR.PDF)
10. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB473 HFLR.PDF)
11. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB473 SFLR.PDF)
12. SB473 (3-14-23) (PAXTON) FS FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB473 (3-14-23) (PAXTON) FS FA1.PDF)
13. SB473 (3-14-23) (PAXTON) RT FA2.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB473 (3-14-23) (PAXTON) RT FA2.PDF)
14. Senate Conference Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB473 CCS.PDF)

Votes

• Fourth Reading — 79–8 (pass) · lower
• Committee On Education: Strike The Title, Motion By Senator Pugh - Adopted — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Appropriations — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• Fourth Reading — 37–6 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 56–26 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• ODonnell — primary (person)
• Treat — 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 Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-28 Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2023-02-28 Title stricken
• 2023-02-28 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-03-01 Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2023-03-07 Coauthored by Representative Hilbert (principal House author)
• 2023-03-20 General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
• 2023-03-20 Title restored
• 2023-03-20 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 passage
• 2023-03-20 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-03-21 Engrossed to House passage
• 2023-03-21 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-03-29 Second Reading referred to General Government reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 Withdrawn from General Government, Direct to Calendar
• 2024-04-25 General Order
• 2024-04-25 Coauthored by Representative(s) Sneed, Manger, West (Kevin), Cantrell
• 2024-04-25 Amended by floor substitute
• 2024-04-25 Title stricken
• 2024-04-25 Enacting clause stricken
• 2024-04-25 Emergency removed
• 2024-04-25 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 56 Nays: 26 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 Referred for engrossment
• 2024-04-29 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2024-04-29 HAs read
• 2024-05-24 Remove as author Senator Paxton; authored by Senator Treat
• 2024-05-24 Coauthored by Senator Paxton
• 2024-05-27 remove as principal author Representative Hilbert and substitute with Representative Echols
• 2024-05-27 Coauthored by Representative Hilbert
• 2024-05-27 HAs rejected, conference requested amendment-failure
• 2024-05-27 SCs named Treat, McCortney, Gollihare, Howard, Floyd
• 2024-05-27 Conference granted, naming Special Conference Committee on SB 473
• 2024-05-28 CCR read
• 2024-05-28 Title restored
• 2024-05-28 Enacting clause restored
• 2024-05-28 Emergency added
• 2024-05-29 CCR adopted
• 2024-05-29 Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 37 Nays: 6 passage
• 2024-05-29 CCR submitted
• 2024-05-29 CCR adopted
• 2024-05-29 Remove Representative Echols as principal House author and substitute with Representative ODonnell
• 2024-05-29 Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 8 passage
• 2024-05-29 To Senate
• 2024-05-29 Referred for enrollment
• 2024-05-30 Enrolled, to House
• 2024-05-30 Signed, returned to Senate
• 2024-05-30 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-31 Approved by Governor 05/31/2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9bcf2f9a-ef2f-4551-a967-7b4b481a08f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).