Votes at a glance: Oklahoma Senate advances and passes scores of bills including enterprise-zone, produced-water and licensing measures

The Oklahoma Senate moved a package of bills through third reading and final passage during the floor session, advancing legislation on tax exemptions for contractor purchases, corrections policy, professional licensure compacts, public-health reporting, property-title protections and several agriculture and energy measures.

Key results (selected):
- Senate Bill 44: Advanced and passed to allow certain nonprofit and governmental entities to assign sales-tax exemptions to contractors for construction purchases (chair announced 36 ayes, 8 nays).
- Senate Bill 546: House amendments reorganized biometric-data definitions and added an exemption related to controlled dangerous substances; amendments were adopted and the bill passed (38 ayes, 7 nays).
- Senate Bill 1213: Department of Corrections request to let incoming prisoners start at level 4 to access programs sooner; passed unanimously (46–0).
- Senate Bill 1256: Requires ignition interlock devices for repeat DUI defendants as a condition of bond; sponsor cited national data and the bill passed (41 ayes, 4 nays).
- Senate Bill 1287: Allows the Oklahoma Abstractors Board to deny licenses to applicants ineligible to work in the U.S.; passed (39 ayes, 7 nays) after debate about contractor responsibilities.
- Senate Bill 1826: Removes the sunset on the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act so municipalities remain eligible for matching payments; passed (32 ayes, 13 nays).
- Senate Bill 1930: Clarifies treatment and compensation for produced water and passed unanimously (45–0).
- Senate Bill 2028: Allows advertising of raw milk, raises a gallon limit to 1,500 and adds a labeling requirement; the bill and amendments were adopted and it passed as an emergency measure.

Several bills were advanced as emergency measures following unanimous consent to consider the passage vote also the emergency vote (for example SB19-76, SB20-28, SB21-17, SB7-10 and others). Most bills were advanced by unanimous consent or voice votes and many passed on the floor with minimal debate; a few drew longer discussion (notably SB1209, covered separately). The Senate adjourned and set the next meeting for Tuesday, March 17 at 9 a.m.

Action list: All actions below are recorded as having been advanced or passed on the Senate floor during this session; the transcript provides the final roll-call tallies when recorded on the floor.