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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
HOUSE BILL 3195 By: Humphrey
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to district attorneys; amending 21
O.S. 2021, Sections 451, as amended by Section 665,
Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025, 452, 453, as amended by
Section 373, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025, 454, and 456,
as amended by Section 374, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025
(21 O.S. Supp. 2025, Sections 451, 453, and 456),
which relate to crimes relating to evidence;
clarifying scope of certain prohibited acts;
increasing penalties on certain prohibited acts;
amending 21 O.S. 2021, Sections 491, as amended by
Section 378, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025, 504, as
amended by Section 381, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025, and
531, as amended by Section 383, Chapter 486, O.S.L.
2025 (21 O.S. Supp. 2025, Sections 491, 504, and
531), which relate to perjury offenses; clarifying
scope of certain offenses; and providing an effective
date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 451, as
amended by Section 665, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp.
2025, Section 451), is amended to read as follows:
Section 451. Any district attorney, assistant district
attorney, or any other person who, upon any trial, proceedings,
inquiry or investigation whatever, authorized by law, offers in
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evidence, as genuine, any book, paper, document, record, or other
instrument in writing, knowing the same to have been forged, or
fraudulently altered shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3
felony offense and shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for
in subsections B through F of Section 20P of this title.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 452, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 452. Every district attorney, assistant district
attorney, or any other person who practices any fraud or deceit, or
knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation,
token or writing, to any witness or person about to be called as a
witness, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation
whatever, proceeding by authority of law, with intent to affect the
testimony of such witness, is guilty of a misdemeanor felony.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 453, as
amended by Section 373, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp.
2025, Section 453), is amended to read as follows:
Section 453. Any district attorney, assistant district
attorney, or any other person guilty of falsely preparing any book,
paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with
intent to produce it, or allow it to be produced as genuine upon any
trial, proceeding or inquiry whatever, authorized by law, shall be
guilty of a Class D1 felony offense and shall be punished by
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imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section
20N of this title.
SECTION 4. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 454, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 454. Every district attorney, assistant district
attorney, or any other person who knowing that any book, paper,
record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, is about to
be produced in evidence upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or
investigation whatever, authorized by law, willfully destroys the
same, with intent thereby to prevent the same from being produced,
is guilty of a misdemeanor felony.
SECTION 5. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 456, as
amended by Section 374, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp.
2025, Section 456), is amended to read as follows:
Section 456. Any district attorney, assistant district
attorney, or any other person who gives or offers or promises to
give to any witness or person about to be called as a witness in any
matter whatever, including contests before United States land
officers or townsite commissioners, any bribe upon any understanding
or agreement that the testimony of such witness shall be influenced,
or who attempts by any other means fraudulently to induce any
witness to give false testimony shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony
offense and shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in
subsections B through F of Section 20N of this title, but if the
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offer, promise, or bribe is in any way to induce the witness to
swear falsely, then it shall be held to be subornation of perjury.
SECTION 6. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 491, as
amended by Section 378, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp.
2025, Section 491), is amended to read as follows:
Section 491. Whoever, including district attorneys or assistant
district attorneys, in a trial, hearing, investigation, deposition,
certification or declaration, in which the making or subscribing of
a statement is required or authorized by law, makes or subscribes a
statement under oath, affirmation or other legally binding assertion
that the statement is true, when in fact the witness or declarant
does not believe that the statement is true or knows that it is not
true or intends thereby to avoid or obstruct the ascertainment of
the truth, is guilty of perjury, a Class D1 felony offense. It
shall be a defense to the charge of perjury as defined in this
section that the statement is true.
SECTION 7. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 504, as
amended by Section 381, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp.
2025, Section 504), is amended to read as follows:
Section 504. Whoever, including district attorneys and
assistant district attorneys, procures another to commit perjury is
guilty of perjury by subornation. Perjury by subornation is a Class
D1 felony offense, punishable as provided in Section 505 of this
title. Whoever, including district attorneys and assistant district
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attorneys, does any act with the specific intent to commit perjury
by subornation but fails to complete that offense is guilty of
attempted perjury by subornation.
SECTION 8. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 531, as
amended by Section 383, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp.
2025, Section 531), is amended to read as follows:
Section 531. Any district attorney, assistant district
attorney, sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, constable or other
ministerial officer, and every deputy or subordinate of any
ministerial officer, who mutilates, destroys, conceals, erases,
obliterates or falsifies any record or paper appertaining to his or
her office shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense and shall be
punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F
of Section 20N of this title.
SECTION 9. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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