SB1552 • 2026

Counties; providing for increasing population threshold for adopting or amending county home rule charter. Effective date.

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Sponsor: Kirt
Last action: 2026-04-08
Official status: Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass County and Municipal Government
Effective date: Not listed

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Counties; providing for increasing population threshold for adopting or amending county home rule charter. Effective date.

Counties; providing for increasing population threshold for adopting or amending county home rule charter.

What This Bill Does

Counties; providing for increasing population threshold for adopting or amending county home rule charter.
Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1552 (House): Engrossed (4/7/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1552 (Senate): Introduced (1/13/2026)

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Amendments

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Committee Amendment 1

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Filed

Plain English: (Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.

(Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.
________ COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (Date) I move to amend Senate Bill No.
1552 as follows: 1.
On Page 1, Lines 16 and 17, by deleting all new language and inserting the following language “eight hundred seventy-five thousand (875,000)”; and 2.

Bill History

2026-04-08 House
Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass County and Municipal Government
2026-03-30 House
Second Reading referred to Government Oversight
2026-03-30 House
Referred to County and Municipal Government
2026-03-25 Senate
Engrossed to House
2026-03-25 House
First Reading
2026-03-24 Senate
General Order, Considered
2026-03-24 Senate
Advanced to Third Reading
2026-03-24 Senate
Ayes: 27 Nays: 17
2026-03-24 Senate
Measure passed: Ayes: 26 Nays: 19
2026-03-24 Senate
Referred for engrossment
2026-03-09 Senate
Placed on General Order
2026-03-05 Senate
Coauthored by Senator Daniels
2026-03-04 Senate
Reported Do Pass as amended Rules committee; CR filed
2026-02-11 Senate
Coauthored by Representative Kannady (principal House author)
2026-02-09 Senate
Withdrawn from Local and County Government committee
2026-02-09 Senate
Referred to Rules
2026-02-03 Senate
Second Reading referred to Local and County Government
2026-02-02 Senate
First Reading
2026-02-02 Senate
Authored by Senator Kirt

Official Summary Text

Counties; providing for increasing population threshold for adopting or amending county home rule charter. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1552 (House): Engrossed (4/7/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1552 (Senate): Introduced (1/13/2026)

Current Bill Text

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ENGR. S. B. NO. 1552 Page 1
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ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 1552 By: Kirt and Daniels of the
Senate

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Kannady of the House

An Act relating to counties; amending 19 O.S. 2021,
Section 8.2, which relates to the authority to adopt
or amend county home rule charter; providing for
increasing population threshold for adopting or
amending county home rule charter; updating statutory
language; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2021, Section 8.2, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 8.2. Any county in this state with a population of less
than five hundred fifty thousand (550,000) eight hundred seventy-
five thousand (875,000), according to the latest Federal Decennial
Census, which contains a metropolitan area municipality with a
population of two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) seven hundred
thousand (700,000) or more, according to the latest Federal
Decennial Census, may adopt or amend a County Home Rule Charter for
county government which specifies those powers appropriate for said
such government and which are not inconsistent with the Oklahoma
Constitution and laws of this state.

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SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
Passed the Senate the 24th day of March, 2026.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________,
2026.

Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives