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HB4108 • 2026

Airports; trespassing on property containing critical infrastructure; expanding scope of crime to include airports; effective date.

Airports; trespassing on property containing critical infrastructure; expanding scope of crime to include airports; effective date.

Crime
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Ford
Last action
2026-05-11
Official status
Approved by Governor 05/07/2026
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Airports; trespassing on property containing critical infrastructure; expanding scope of crime to include airports; effective date.

Airports; trespassing on property containing critical infrastructure; expanding scope of crime to include airports; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • Airports; trespassing on property containing critical infrastructure; expanding scope of crime to include airports; effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute (2/9/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (2/14/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Recommendation (3/11/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Committee Substitute (3/11/2026)

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Plain English: Req.

  • Req.
  • No.
  • 16510 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 2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026) POLICY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 4108 By: Ford POLICY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION An Act relating to airports; amending 21 O.S.

Plain English: HB4108 POLPCS1 Ross Ford-GRS 2/4/2026 12:21:33 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Ross Ford Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB4108 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.

  • HB4108 POLPCS1 Ross Ford-GRS 2/4/2026 12:21:33 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Ross Ford Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB4108 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.
  • 15951 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 2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026) PROPOSED POLICY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 4108 By: Ford PROPOSED POLICY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to airports; amending 21 O.S.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-11 House

    Approved by Governor 05/07/2026

  2. 2026-05-05 Senate

    General Order, Considered

  3. 2026-05-05 Senate

    Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0

  4. 2026-05-05 Senate

    Engrossed measure signed, returned to House

  5. 2026-05-05 House

    Referred for enrollment

  6. 2026-05-05 House

    Enrolled, signed, to Senate

  7. 2026-05-05 Senate

    Enrolled measure signed, returned to House

  8. 2026-05-05 House

    Sent to Governor

  9. 2026-04-15 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  10. 2026-04-13 Senate

    Reported Do Pass Aeronautics and Transportation committee; CR filed

  11. 2026-04-01 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Aeronautics and Transportation

  12. 2026-03-12 House

    Engrossed, signed, to Senate

  13. 2026-03-12 Senate

    First Reading

  14. 2026-03-11 House

    General Order

  15. 2026-03-11 House

    Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 0

  16. 2026-03-11 House

    Referred for engrossment

  17. 2026-03-02 House

    CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee

  18. 2026-02-18 House

    Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Criminal Judiciary

  19. 2026-02-18 House

    Authored by Senator Rader (principal Senate author)

  20. 2026-02-09 House

    Withdrawn from Rules Committee

  21. 2026-02-09 House

    Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

  22. 2026-02-09 House

    Referred to Criminal Judiciary

  23. 2026-02-03 House

    Second Reading referred to Rules

  24. 2026-02-02 House

    First Reading

  25. 2026-02-02 House

    Authored by Representative Ford

Official Summary Text

Airports; trespassing on property containing critical infrastructure; expanding scope of crime to include airports; effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute (2/9/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (2/14/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Recommendation (3/11/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 4108 (House): Committee Substitute (3/11/2026)

Current Bill Text

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An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 4108 By: Ford of the House

and

Rader of the Senate

An Act relating to airports; amending 21 O.S. 2021,
Section 1792, as amended by Section 699, Chapter 486,
O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp. 2025, Section 1792), which
relates to trespassing on property containing
critical infrastructure; expanding scope of crime to
include airports; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT: Airports

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1792, as
amended by Section 699, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp.
2025, Section 1792), is amended to read as follows:

Section 1792. A. Any person who shall willfully trespass or
enter property containing a critical infrastructure facility without
permission by the owner of the property or lawful occupant thereof
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a
fine of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by
imprisonment in the county jail for a term of six (6) months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment. If it is determined the intent of
the trespasser is to willfully damage, destroy, vandalize, deface,
tamper with equipment, or impede or inhibit operations of the
facility, the person shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3
felony offense punishable by a fine of not less than Ten Thousand
Dollars ($10,000.00), or by imprisonment as provided for in
subsections B through F of Section 20P of this title, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.

B. Any person who shall willfully damage, destroy, vandalize,
deface or tamper with equipment in a critical infrastructure
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facility shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3 felony
offense punishable by a fine of One Hundred Thousand Dollars
($100,000.00), or by imprisonment in the custody of the Department
of Corrections for a term of not more than ten (10) years, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.

C. If an organization is found to be a conspirator with persons
who are found to have committed any of the crimes described in
subsection A or B of this section, the conspiring organization shall
be punished by a fine that is ten times the amount of said fine
authorized by the appropriate provision of this section.

D. As used in this section, "critical infrastructure facility"
means:

1. One of the following, if completely enclosed by a fence or
other physical barrier that is obviously designed to exclude
intruders, or if clearly marked with a sign or signs that are posted
on the property that are reasonably likely to come to the attention
of intruders and indicate that entry is forbidden without site
authorization:

a. a petroleum or alumina refinery,

b. an electrical power generating facility, substation,
switching station, electrical control center or
electric power lines and associated equipment
infrastructure,

c. a chemical, polymer or rubber manufacturing facility,

d. a water intake structure, water treatment facility,
wastewater treatment plant or pump station,

e. a natural gas compressor station,

f. a liquid natural gas terminal or storage facility,

g. a telecommunications central switching office,

h. wireless telecommunications infrastructure, including
cell towers, telephone poles and lines, including
fiber optic lines,

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i. a port, railroad switching yard, railroad tracks,
trucking terminal or other freight transportation
facility,

j. a gas processing plant, including a plant used in the
processing, treatment or fractionation of natural gas
or natural gas liquids,

k. a transmission facility used by a federally licensed
radio or television station,

l. a steelmaking facility that uses an electric arc
furnace to make steel,

m. a facility identified and regulated by the United
States Department of Homeland Security Chemical
Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program,

n. a dam that is regulated by the state or federal
government,

o. a natural gas distribution utility facility including,
but not limited to, pipeline interconnections, a city
gate or town border station, metering station,
aboveground piping, a regulator station and a natural
gas storage facility, or

p. a crude oil or refined products storage and
distribution facility including, but not limited to,
valve sites, pipeline interconnections, pump station,
metering station, below or aboveground pipeline or
piping and truck loading or offloading facility, or

q. the operational area of an airport including runways,
taxiways, ramps, apron areas, aircraft parking and
storage areas, fuel storage areas, maintenances areas,
and any other area of an airport used or intended to
be used for landing, takeoff, or surface maneuvering
of aircraft; or

2. Any aboveground portion of an oil, gas, hazardous liquid or
chemical pipeline, tank, railroad facility or other storage facility
that is enclosed by a fence, other physical barrier or is clearly
marked with signs prohibiting trespassing, that are obviously
designed to exclude intruders.
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SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

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Passed the House of Representatives the 11th day of March, 2026.

Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives

Passed the Senate the 5th day of May, 2026.

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: _________________________________