SB1268 • 2026

Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act; increasing minimum wage amount; providing for additional increase over certain time period. Effective date.

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Sponsor: Nice
Last action: 2026-02-03
Official status: Second Reading referred to Rules Committee then to Appropriations Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act; increasing minimum wage amount; providing for additional increase over certain time period. Effective date.

Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act; increasing minimum wage amount; providing for additional increase over certain time period.

What This Bill Does

Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act; increasing minimum wage amount; providing for additional increase over certain time period.
Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1268 (Senate): Introduced (12/17/2025) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 1268 (Senate): SB1268 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

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Bill History

2026-02-03 Senate
Second Reading referred to Rules Committee then to Appropriations Committee
2026-02-02 Senate
First Reading
2026-02-02 Senate
Authored by Senator Nice

Official Summary Text

Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act; increasing minimum wage amount; providing for additional increase over certain time period. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1268 (Senate): Introduced (12/17/2025)
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 1268 (Senate): SB1268 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)

SENATE BILL 1268 By: Nice

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act;
amending 40 O.S. 2021, Section 197.2, which relates
to the establishment of minimum wages; updating
statutory language; increasing minimum wage amount;
providing for additional increase over certain time
period; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 40 O.S. 2021, Section 197.2, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 197.2. It shall be unlawful to employ workers in any
industry or occupation within the State of Oklahoma this state under
conditions of labor detrimental to their health or morals and it
shall be unlawful to employ workers in any industry within the State
of Oklahoma this state at wages which are not adequate for their
maintenance. Except as otherwise provided in the Oklahoma Minimum
Wage Act, no employer within the State of Oklahoma of this state
shall pay any employee a wage of less than Thirteen Dollars ($13.00)
an hour with an increase of fifty cents ($0.50) per year over a
five-year period after the effective date of this act, or the

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current federal minimum wage, whichever is greater, for all hours
worked.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

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