republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/hb-3996.md

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Bill	Crimes and punishments; capital cases; Indigent Defense System to make certain payments and provide certain experts; effective date.	Crimes and punishments; capital cases; Indigent Defense System to make certain payments and provide certain experts; effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	HB 3996	Oklahoma HB 3996 (2026)	bill		enacted	Howard Worthen	10	36	6	2026-02-02	2026-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8e955768-fc3e-4bed-aa1f-3f4de9769e1f	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB3996&session=2600	37a02d8480822fe7eefd73326223b54391f3386f426170001d310cf1b1dc7a90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 3996 (2026) — Crimes and punishments; capital cases; Indigent Defense System to make certain payments and provide certain experts; 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/HB3996 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Floor Amendment by KANE (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB3996 FA1 KANEJO-CJC.PDF)
3. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/HB3996 SAHB AND ENGR.PDF)
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB3996 ENGR.PDF)
5. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB3996 ENR.PDF)
6. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB3996 HFLR.PDF)
7. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB3996 SFLR.PDF)
8. House Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB3996 CS.PDF)
9. Policy Committee Recommendation (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB3996 POLREC.PDF)
10. Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB3996 FULLPCS1 TREY CALDWELL-MKS.PDF)

Votes

• Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• Fourth Reading — 86–1 (pass) · lower
• Criminal Judiciary Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary And Public Safety Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 87–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Howard — primary (person)
• Worthen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-02 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2026-02-02 Authored by Representative Caldwell (Trey)
• 2026-02-03 Second Reading referred to Rules reading-2, referral-committee
• 2026-02-12 Remove Representative Caldwell (Trey) as principal House author and substitute with Representative Worthen
• 2026-02-17 Withdrawn from Rules Committee
• 2026-02-17 Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight referral-committee
• 2026-02-17 Referred to Criminal Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-02-18 Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Criminal Judiciary committee-passage
• 2026-02-18 Coauthored by Representative(s) Caldwell (Trey)
• 2026-02-18 Authored by Senator Howard (principal Senate author)
• 2026-02-24 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee committee-passage
• 2026-03-04 General Order
• 2026-03-04 Amended amendment-passage
• 2026-03-04 Title stricken
• 2026-03-04 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 6 passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Referred for engrossment
• 2026-03-05 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2026-03-05 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2026-04-01 Second Reading referred to Judiciary Committee then to Appropriations Committee reading-2, referral-committee
• 2026-04-14 Reported Do Pass as amended Judiciary committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2026-04-14 Title restored
• 2026-04-14 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2026-04-20 Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
• 2026-04-20 Placed on General Order
• 2026-04-22 General Order, Considered
• 2026-04-22 Measure passed: Ayes: 47 Nays: 0 passage
• 2026-04-22 Referred for engrossment
• 2026-04-23 Engrossed to House passage
• 2026-04-23 SA's received
• 2026-05-06 SA's read, adopted
• 2026-05-06 Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 86 Nays: 1 passage
• 2026-05-06 Referred for enrollment
• 2026-05-06 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2026-05-06 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2026-05-06 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-13 Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/13/2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e955768-fc3e-4bed-aa1f-3f4de9769e1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).