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HB2794 • 2026

Department of Commerce; making appropriations; sources; amounts; purposes.

Department of Commerce; making appropriations; sources; amounts; purposes.

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Sponsor
Caldwell (Trey)
Last action
2025-05-29
Official status
Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/29/2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Department of Commerce; making appropriations; sources; amounts; purposes.

Department of Commerce; making appropriations; sources; amounts; purposes.

What This Bill Does

  • Department of Commerce; making appropriations; sources; amounts; purposes.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2794 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (5/19/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2794 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 2 (5/19/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2794 (House): Committee Substitute (5/20/2025)

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: HB2794 FULLPCS1 Trey Caldwell-MKS 5/17/2025 1:58:19 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Trey Caldwell Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB2794 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.

  • HB2794 FULLPCS1 Trey Caldwell-MKS 5/17/2025 1:58:19 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Trey Caldwell Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB2794 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.
  • 13738 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 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 2794 By: Caldwell (Trey) and Kane of the House and Hall and Haste of the Senate PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce; making appropriations; identifying sources; establishing amounts; providing purposes; providing for noncodification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
Filed

Plain English: HB2794 FULLPCS2 Trey Caldwell-JM 5/18/2025 5:11:17 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Trey Caldwell Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB2794 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.

  • HB2794 FULLPCS2 Trey Caldwell-JM 5/18/2025 5:11:17 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Trey Caldwell Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB2794 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.
  • 13769 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 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 2794 By: Caldwell (Trey) and Kane of the House and Hall and Haste of the Senate PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce; making appropriations; identifying sources; establishing amounts; providing purposes; providing for noncodification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-29 House

    Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/29/2025

  2. 2025-05-22 Senate

    JCR adopted

  3. 2025-05-22 Senate

    Measure passed: Ayes: 25 Nays: 20

  4. 2025-05-22 Senate

    Engrossed measure signed, returned to House

  5. 2025-05-22 House

    Referred for enrollment

  6. 2025-05-22 House

    Enrolled, signed, to Senate

  7. 2025-05-22 Senate

    Enrolled measure signed, returned to House

  8. 2025-05-22 House

    Sent to Governor

  9. 2025-05-21 Senate

    Direct to Calendar

  10. 2025-05-20 House

    General Order

  11. 2025-05-20 House

    Coauthored by Senator(s) Frix

  12. 2025-05-20 House

    JCR adopted

  13. 2025-05-20 House

    Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 61 Nays: 30; Ayes: 61 Nays: 30

  14. 2025-05-20 House

    Referred for engrossment

  15. 2025-05-20 House

    Engrossed, signed, to Senate

  16. 2025-05-20 Senate

    First Reading

  17. 2025-05-19 House

    JCR; Do pass, amended by committee substitute Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

  18. 2025-05-19 House

    Emergency added

  19. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

  20. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  21. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Caldwell (Trey), Kane

  22. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Senator Hall (principal Senate author)

  23. 2025-02-03 House

    Coauthored by Senator(s) Haste

Official Summary Text

Department of Commerce; making appropriations; sources; amounts; purposes.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2794 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (5/19/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2794 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 2 (5/19/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2794 (House): Committee Substitute (5/20/2025)

Current Bill Text

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An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2794 By: Caldwell (Trey) and Kane of
the House

and

Hall, Haste, and Frix of
the Senate

An Act relating to the Oklahoma Department of
Commerce; making appropriations; identifying sources;
establishing amounts; providing purposes; and
providing for noncodification.

SUBJECT: Oklahoma Department of Commerce

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:

There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Department of
Commerce from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity Fund created pursuant to
Section 256 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes the sum of Five
Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) or so much thereof as may be
necessary to provide funding for a municipal park located in a
county with a population greater than seven hundred fifty thousand
(750,000) according to the latest Federal Decennial Census and north
of I-344 and west of I-35.

SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:

There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Department of
Commerce from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity Fund created pursuant to
ENR. H. B. NO. 2794 Page 2
Section 256 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes the sum of Four
Million Dollars ($4,000,000.00) or so much thereof as may be
necessary to relocate a naval submarine located east of State
Highway 165 and north of State Highway 62.

SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:

There is hereby appropriated to the Oklahoma Department of
Commerce from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity Fund created pursuant to
Section 256 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes the sum of One
Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,800,000.00) or so much
thereof as may be necessary to implement infrastructure improvements
at an industrial park located south of State Highway 62 and east of
State Highway 283.

ENR. H. B. NO. 2794 Page 3
Passed the House of Representatives the 20th day of May, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives

Passed the Senate the 22nd day of May, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.

_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________