republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/hb-1438.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Waters and water rights; Rural Economic Action Plan grant program; monetary cap; effective date.	Waters and water rights; Rural Economic Action Plan grant program; monetary cap; effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	HB 1438	Oklahoma HB 1438 (2026)	bill		enacted	Kern Patzkowsky	9	34	6	2025-02-03	2025-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/0766e57f-31b5-4fd2-917e-a6985c6a9c75	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1438&session=2600	0c7650f0307bcf1fcc6df7d82057db0cd69a68774f129e47a2ae169275278ecb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 1438 (2026) — Waters and water rights; Rural Economic Action Plan grant program; monetary cap; 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/HB1438 INT.PDF)
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1438 ENGR.PDF)
3. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1438 ENR.PDF)
4. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1438 HFLR.PDF)
5. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1438 SFLR.PDF)
6. HB1438 (4-28-25) (KERN) RT FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB1438 (4-28-25) (KERN) RT FA1.PDF)
7. House Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1438 CS.PDF)
8. Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1438 POLPCS1 KENTON PATZKOWSKY-JBH.PDF)
9. Sub Committee Recommendation (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1438 SUBREC.PDF)

Votes

• Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 31–0 (pass) · lower
• Appropriations — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 44–1 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 91–2 (pass) · lower
• Appropriations And Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 9–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kern — primary (person)
• Patzkowsky — 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 Boles
• 2025-02-03 Remove Representative Boles as principal House author and substitute with Representative Patzkowsky
• 2025-02-04 Second Reading referred to Rules reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Withdrawn from Rules Committee
• 2025-02-10 Referred to Appropriations and Budget referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Referred to Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee committee-passage
• 2025-03-03 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee committee-passage
• 2025-03-03 Authored by Senator Frix (principal Senate author)
• 2025-03-10 General Order
• 2025-03-10 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 2 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-10 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-03-11 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2025-03-11 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-01 Second Reading referred to Energy Committee then to Appropriations Committee reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07 Remove as author Senator Frix; authored by Senator Kern
• 2025-04-07 Coauthored by Senator Frix
• 2025-04-10 Reported Do Pass Energy committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-04-10 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-16 Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-04-16 Title stricken
• 2025-04-21 Placed on General Order
• 2025-04-28 Coauthored by Senator Pederson
• 2025-04-29 General Order, Amended
• 2025-04-29 Title restored
• 2025-04-29 Amendment restored bill to engrossed version amendment-passage
• 2025-04-29 Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1 passage
• 2025-04-29 Engrossed measure signed, returned to House passage
• 2025-04-29 Referred for enrollment
• 2025-04-30 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2025-04-30 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2025-04-30 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-07 Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/07/2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0766e57f-31b5-4fd2-917e-a6985c6a9c75. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).