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HB1093 • 2026

Wind energy facilities; requiring wind energy facilities lease and distribute royalties equally to certain landowners; effective date.

Wind energy facilities; requiring wind energy facilities lease and distribute royalties equally to certain landowners; effective date.

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Sponsor
Cornwell
Last action
2025-02-04
Official status
Referred to Energy
Effective date
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Wind energy facilities; requiring wind energy facilities lease and distribute royalties equally to certain landowners; effective date.

Wind energy facilities; requiring wind energy facilities lease and distribute royalties equally to certain landowners; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • Wind energy facilities; requiring wind energy facilities lease and distribute royalties equally to certain landowners; effective date.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Energy and Natural Resources Oversight

  2. 2025-02-04 House

    Referred to Energy

  3. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  4. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Cornwell

Official Summary Text

Wind energy facilities; requiring wind energy facilities lease and distribute royalties equally to certain landowners; effective date.

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1093 By: Cornwell

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to wind energy facilities; requiring
wind energy facilities lease and distribute royalties
equally to certain landowners; providing for certain
royalty allocation; stating act shall be applicable
to certain wind energy facilities; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 160.23 of Title 17, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Wind energy facilities shall lease and distribute royalties
to all landowners with adjacent properties within a radius of one
thousand eight hundred (1,800) feet of the base of any wind turbine
in operation.
Royalties shall be paid at an equal rate to all qualifying
landowners within the radius, regardless of whether their property
is directly used for wind turbine construction. If a property
located within the radius is partitioned, subdivided, or

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transferred, the original royalty allocated to that property shall
be divided in an amount proportional to the amount of each owner's
property that lies within the radius, calculated as a fraction of
the total original property area within the radius.
B. This section shall only apply to the construction or
expansion of wind energy facilities constructed or expanded after
the effective date of this act.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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