58th Oklahoma Legislature

Dates of sessions

• Organizational day: January 5, 2021
• First Session: February 1, 2021 - May 28, 2021
• 2021 Redistricting Special Session: November 15, 2021 - November 19, 2021
• Second Session: February 7, 2022 – May 27, 2022
• 2022 Concurrent Special Session: May 18, 2022 - May 27, 2022
• 2022 Governor's Special Session: June 13, 2022 -

Major Legislation

First Session

Abortion

• - This bill adds abortion to the list of "unprofessional conduct" for doctors.
• - This bill bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
• - This bill requires abortions to be performed by a board certified OB-GYN.
• - This bill would automatically make abortion illegal in Oklahoma if either Roe v. Wade (1973) is overturned or if an amendment to the United States Constitution restoring the State's authority to prohibit abortions is passed.

Civil Service reform

• - This bill, called the Civil Service and Human Capital Modernization Act, creates a new internal state agency in charge of arbitrating and settling state employee complaints. This agency would have the power to contract administrative law judges to oversee these cases. The bill eliminates the Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission.

Criminal Justice

• - This bill makes Oklahoma a Second Amendment sanctuary state.
• - This bill, called Ida's law, creates an office in Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation dedicated to searching for missing and murdered Indigenous people in Oklahoma and directs them to cooperate with the U.S. Department of Justice on this issue.
• HB 1674- This bill increases criminal penalties for riots and provides for a legal defense when a driver commits vehicular homicide while fleeing a riot.

Education

• Oklahoma House Bill 1775 (2021)- This bill bars public schools from teaching various concepts related to Critical Race Theory.
• - This bill prohibits schools, colleges, and universities from requiring vaccination against COVID-19. It also limits their ability to mandate mask wearing to only when there is a state of emergency declared by the Governor of Oklahoma and they have consulted their county health department.

Healthcare

• - This bill caps the cost of a 30 day supply of insulin at $30 and a 90 day supply at $90.

Religious Freedom

• - This bill prevents the government from closing religious institutions during emergencies.

Second Session

Abortion

• - This bill makes it a felony to perform an abortion, except to save the life of the mother.
• - This bill allows civil lawsuits against those who help a woman get an abortion after about six weeks into her pregnancy. The Oklahoman reported the bill as a "Texas-style abortion law."
• - This bill allows civil lawsuits against those who help a woman get an abortion at any point during her pregnancy. The woman pursuing the procedure cannot be sued. The bill contains limited exceptions for medical emergencies, rape and incest. The Oklahoman reported the bill as being the "strictest anti-abortion law in the nation." All four abortion providers in the state stated they stopped performing abortions once the law took effect.

Criminal justice

• - This bill allows police departments to prevent the release of an audio or video recording that includes a police officer's death. A judge can still order the videos release if they find it is in the public's interest.
• - This bill allows the automatically expungement of certain criminal cases.
• - This bill directs the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to dedicate $4.89 million to the privately operated Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility for a per diem increase. It also directs $2.92 million to the privately operated Davis Correctional Facility for the same purpose. The bill was vetoed by Governor Kevin Stitt, but the legislature overrode the veto.

Education

• - This bill authorizes the creation of higher education districts for two-year colleges to access property tax dollars. The bill was vetoed by Governor Kevin Stitt, but the legislature overrode the veto.

Environmental

• - This bill creates a soil preservation program within the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. The bill was vetoed by Governor Kevin Stitt, but the legislature overrode the veto.

Government Agency reforms

• - This bill establishes an Oklahoma Route 66 Commission. The bill was vetoed by Governor Kevin Stitt, but the legislature overrode the veto.
• - This bill requires the filing of financial disclosure statements for agency directors and cabinet secretaries appointed by the governor. The bill was vetoed by Governor Kevin Stitt, but the legislature overrode the veto.

Subsidies

• - This bill creates a 3.4% state rebate on qualified capital expenditures with a minimum investment of $3.6 billion and a maximum of $4.5 billion. The rebates also require meeting certain employment minimums and other conditions over five years. Rebates are paid from the Large-scale Economic Activity and Development Fund created by the bill with an initial funding of $698 million. The bill was reported as being nicknamed "Project Ocean" and was intended to attract Panasonic to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Oklahoma. Panasonic later announced it would build its electric vehicle battery factory in Kansas.

Transgender rights

• - This bill prevents transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams in public, private, and charter schools and college sports.
• SB 1100- This bill bars issuing non-binary birth certificates in Oklahoma.

Tribal Relations

• - This bill allows the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety to revoke driver’s licenses based on traffic offense convictions in tribal courts. The bill was vetoed by Governor Kevin Stitt, but the legislature overrode the veto.

Calls for additional special sessions

Major events

Membership

Changes in membership during session

• April 14, 2021 Jake Merrick is sworn in to fill Stephanie Bice's vacant Senate District 22 seat.
• January 21, 2022 Jose Cruz resigned from representing HD-89 following a sexual assault scandal, leaving the seat vacant until the next election.

Senate

Leadership

House

Leadership