republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/hb-1597.md

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Bill	Crimes and punishments; making certain acts unlawful; codification; effective date.	Crimes and punishments; making certain acts unlawful; codification; effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	HB 1597	Oklahoma HB 1597 (2026)	bill		enacted	George Weaver	8	24	5	2025-02-03	2025-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/3cdc41ce-2270-48cb-a2fc-234daa2d30e8	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1597&session=2600	21901127368e23c6123f78748dfaff3ff91f0e922aaef3cc2493f412487ad2fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 1597 (2026) — Crimes and punishments; making certain acts unlawful; codification; effective date.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/hB/HB1597 INT.PDF)
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1597 ENGR.PDF)
3. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1597 ENR.PDF)
4. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1597 HFLR.PDF)
5. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1597 SFLR.PDF)
6. House Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1597 CS.PDF)
7. Policy Committee Recommendation (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1597 POLREC.PDF)
8. Proposed Policy Committee Amendment 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1597 POLAMD1 JOHN GEORGE-GRS.PDF)

Votes

• Third Reading — 84–5 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 38–6 (pass) · upper
• Criminal Judiciary Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 4–1 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary And Public Safety Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary — 7–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• George — primary (person)
• Weaver — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Authored by Representative George
• 2025-02-04 Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Criminal Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Criminal Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Authored by Senator Weaver (principal Senate author)
• 2025-02-26 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee committee-passage
• 2025-03-11 General Order
• 2025-03-11 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 5 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-11 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-03-12 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2025-03-12 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-01 Second Reading referred to Judiciary reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-04-24 Placed on General Order
• 2025-05-05 Coauthored by Representative Wolfley
• 2025-05-07 General Order, Considered
• 2025-05-07 Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 6 passage
• 2025-05-07 Engrossed measure signed, returned to House passage
• 2025-05-07 Referred for enrollment
• 2025-05-08 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2025-05-08 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2025-05-08 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-15 Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3cdc41ce-2270-48cb-a2fc-234daa2d30e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).