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HB1961 • 2026

Aeronautics; creating the Aeronautics Updating Act of 2025; effective date.

Aeronautics; creating the Aeronautics Updating Act of 2025; effective date.

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Sponsor
Staires
Last action
2025-02-17
Official status
Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Transportation Subcommittee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Aeronautics; creating the Aeronautics Updating Act of 2025; effective date.

Aeronautics; creating the Aeronautics Updating Act of 2025; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • Aeronautics; creating the Aeronautics Updating Act of 2025; effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1961 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (2/14/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1961 (House): Sub Committee Recommendation (3/4/2025)

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: HB1961 POLPCS1 Clay Staires-JBH 2/4/2025 2:59:14 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Clay Staires Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB1961 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.

  • HB1961 POLPCS1 Clay Staires-JBH 2/4/2025 2:59:14 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Clay Staires Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB1961 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.
  • No.
  • 12310 Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF OKLAHOMA 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) PROPOSED POLICY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 1961 By: Staires PROPOSED POLICY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to aeronautics technology; amending Sections 1, 2, and 3, Chapter 125, O.S.L.
Filed

Plain English: Req.

  • Req.
  • No.
  • 12705 Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF OKLAHOMA 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 1961 By: Staires SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION An Act relating to aeronautics technology; amending Sections 1, 2, and 3, Chapter 125, O.S.L.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-17 House

    Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Transportation Subcommittee

  2. 2025-02-14 House

    Referred to Appropriations and Budget Transportation Subcommittee

  3. 2025-02-13 House

    Withdrawn from Rules Committee

  4. 2025-02-13 House

    Referred to Appropriations and Budget

  5. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Rules

  6. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  7. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Staires

Official Summary Text

Aeronautics; creating the Aeronautics Updating Act of 2025; effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1961 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (2/14/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1961 (House): Sub Committee Recommendation (3/4/2025)

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1961 By: Staires

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to aeronautics; creating the
Aeronautics Updating Act of 2025; providing for
noncodification; 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 not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Aeronautics
Updating Act of 2025".
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

60-1-11416 JBH 12/30/24