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2025 Oklahoma legislative session

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2025 Oklahoma legislative session
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General information
Scheduled session start:    February 3, 2025

Scheduled session end:    May 30, 2025

Leadership
Senate President
Matt Pinnell (R)

House Speaker
Kyle Hilbert (R)
Majority Leader
Senate: Julie Daniels (R)
House: Mark Lawson (R)
Minority Leader
Senate: Julia Kirt (D)
House: Cyndi Munson (D)

Elections
Next Election:    November 3, 2026

Last Election:    November 5, 2024

Previous legislative sessions
2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018
Other 2025 legislative sessions


In 2025, the Oklahoma State Legislature was scheduled to convene on February 3 and adjourn on May 30.

The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Republicans won a 40-8 majority in the Senate and a 81-20 majority in the House. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Republican state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, Oklahoma was one of 20 state legislatures where Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.

At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session:
  • Republicans held a majority in the Oklahoma state House and state Senate.
  • Oklahoma was one of 23 Republicans state government trifectas.
  • Oklahoma's governor was Republican Kevin Stitt.

    • Leadership in 2025

    See also: Leadership positions in state legislatures

    Oklahoma State Senate

    Oklahoma House of Representatives

    Partisan control in 2025

    See also: State government trifectas

    Oklahoma was one of 23 Republicans state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.

    Oklahoma was also one of 20 state legislatures where Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.

    The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the Oklahoma State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.

    Oklahoma State Senate

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 8
         Republican Party 40
    Total 48

    Oklahoma House of Representatives

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 20
         Republican Party 81
    Total 101

    Regular session

    The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.

    Legislation trackers

    See also: Legislation Trackers

    Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:

    Standing legislative committees

    See also: Standing committee and List of committees in Oklahoma state government


    A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.

    At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 48 standing committees in Oklahoma's state government, including four joint legislative committees, 14 state Senate committees, and 30 state House committees.

    Joint legislative committees

    Senate committees

    House committees

    • Administrative Rules Committee
    • Agriculture & Rural Development Committee
    • Alcohol, Tobacco & Controlled Substances Committee
    • Appropriations and Budget Committee
    • Banking, Financial Services, and Pensions Committee
    • Business and Commerce Committee
    • Children, Youth & Family Services Committee
    • Common Education Committee
    • County & Municipal Government Committee
    • Criminal Justice & Corrections Committee
    • Elections & Ethics Committee
    • Energy & Natural Resources Committee
    • Government Modernization and Efficiency Committee
    • Health Services and Long-Term Care Committee
    • Higher Education and Career Tech Committee
    • House General Government Committee
    • House Public Safety Committee
    • House Rules Committee
    • House Transportation Committee
    • House Veterans and Military Affairs Committee
    • Insurance Committee
    • Judiciary - Civil Committee
    • Judiciary - Criminal Committee
    • Public Health Committee
    • State and Federal Redistricting Committee
    • States' Rights Committee
    • Technology Committee
    • Tourism Committee
    • Utilities Committee
    • Wildlife Committee

    Legislatively referred constitutional amendments

    In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.

    The methods by which the Oklahoma Constitution can be amended:

    See also: Section 1, Article V, and Article XXIV of the Oklahoma Constitution and Laws governing ballot measures in Oklahoma

    The Oklahoma Constitution provides three mechanisms for amending the state's constitution—a citizen-initiated process, a legislative process, and a state constitutional convention. Oklahoma requires a simple majority vote (50% plus 1) for voters to approve constitutional amendments.

    Initiative

    See also: Initiated constitutional amendment

    An initiated constitutional amendment is a citizen-initiated ballot measure that amends a state's constitution. Eighteen (18) states allow citizens to initiate constitutional amendments.

    In Oklahoma, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 15% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election. A simple majority vote is required for voter approval.

    Legislature

    See also: Legislatively referred constitutional amendment

    A simple majority vote is required during one legislative session for the Oklahoma State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 51 votes in the Oklahoma House of Representatives and 24 votes in the Oklahoma State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

    Convention

    See also: Convention-referred constitutional amendment

    According to Section 2 of Article XXIV of the Oklahoma Constitution, a question about whether to hold a state constitutional convention is to automatically appear on the state's ballot every 20 years. Oklahoma is one of 14 states that provides for an automatic constitutional convention question. However, the last time Oklahomans voted on such a question was in 1970.[1] According to the State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse, "Since 1970, Oklahoma’s legislature has refused to follow its Constitution with regard to this provision. In 1994, it placed a referendum on the ballot to eliminate this requirement, but the people of Oklahoma defeated it. Since 1990, many bills have been introduced to implement this part of the Constitution but none has passed."[2]


    Historical partisan control

    The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of Oklahoma.

    Oklahoma Party Control: 1992-2024
    Five years of Democratic trifectas  •  Fourteen years of Republican trifectas
    Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

    Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
    Governor D D D R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
    Senate D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D S S R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
    House D D D D D D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R

    Historical Senate control

    Republicans won control of the Oklahoma State Senate in 2008. In 2024, they won a 40-8 majority.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the Oklahoma Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    Oklahoma State Senate election results: 1992-2024

    Year '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24
    Democrats 37 35 33 33 30 28 26 24 22 16 12 8 6 9 9 8 8
    Republicans 11 13 15 15 18 20 22 24 26 32 36 40 42 39 39 40 40

    Historical House control

    Republicans won control of the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 2004. In 2024, they won an 81-20 majority.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the Oklahoma House following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    Oklahoma House of Representatives election results: 1992-2024

    Year '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24
    Democrats 69 65 65 61 53 53 44 44 40 31 29 29 26 25 19 20 20
    Republicans 32 36 36 40 48 48 57 57 61 70 72 72 75 76 82 81 81

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    Analysis

    Adopted legislation, 2011-2024

    See also: The State Legislative Decade - Oklahoma

    In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.

    See also

    Elections Oklahoma State Government State Legislatures State Politics
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    External links

    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Sooner Politics, "An Oklahoma Constitutional Convention Is Being Drawn Up", July 2, 2015
    2. ↑ State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse, "Periodic Constitutional Convention Comparative Information"; retrieved January 4, 2016
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