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type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; authorizing executive session for discussion of certain sale, lease, or acquisition; limiting parties allowed to participate in executive session for certain purposes. Effective date."
description: "Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; authorizing executive session for discussion of certain sale, lease, or acquisition; limiting parties allowed to participate in executive session for certain purposes. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 491"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 491 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guthrie", "Hildebrant"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03e10dbe-1425-41b9-8733-34ea42b92afe"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB491&session=2600"
source_hash: "1b67ddee9aca3dfb3f8f760c2e57db51186de11927660b620c24c9ed8ccf3350"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ok"]
---
# Oklahoma SB 491 (2026) — Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; authorizing executive session for discussion of certain sale, lease, or acquisition; limiting parties allowed to participate in executive session for certain purposes. 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/SB/SB491 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB491 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB491 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB491 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB491 SFLR.PDF)
## Votes
- Civil Judiciary Committee: Do Pass — **100** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **367** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **892** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary And Public Safety Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **120** (pass) · lower
- Judiciary — **80** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Guthrie — primary (person)
- Hildebrant — 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 Senator Guthrie
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Coauthored by Representative Hildebrant (principal House author)
- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-27** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-27** Measure passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-31** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-31** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Civil Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Civil Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-17** CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-08** General Order
- **2025-05-08** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-08** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-12** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-12** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-12** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-19** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/19/2025 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03e10dbe-1425-41b9-8733-34ea42b92afe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).