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SB165 • 2026

Memorial bridges; designating the Donald Ray Ward Memorial Bridge. Effective date.

Memorial bridges; designating the Donald Ray Ward Memorial Bridge. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Kirt
Last action
2025-02-20
Official status
Placed on General Order
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Memorial bridges; designating the Donald Ray Ward Memorial Bridge. Effective date.

Memorial bridges; designating the Donald Ray Ward Memorial Bridge.

What This Bill Does

  • Memorial bridges; designating the Donald Ray Ward Memorial Bridge.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 165 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024)

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-20 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  2. 2025-02-17 Senate

    Reported Do Pass as amended Aeronautics and Transportation committee; CR filed

  3. 2025-02-17 Senate

    Title stricken

  4. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Aeronautics and Transportation

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  6. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Kirt

Official Summary Text

Memorial bridges; designating the Donald Ray Ward Memorial Bridge. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 165 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024)

Current Bill Text

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION - SB165 SFLR Page 1
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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 17, 2025
AS AMENDED

SENATE BILL NO. 165 By: Kirt

[ memorial highway and bridge designations -
codification - effective date ]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1698.468 of Title 69, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The bridge crossing over Interstate 240 on Interstate 40 in
Oklahoma County shall be designated as the “Donald Ray Ward Memorial
Bridge”. The Department of Transportation shall cause suitable
permanent markers bearing that name to be placed on the bridge.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON AERONAUTICS AND TRANSPORTATION
February 17, 2025 - DO PASS AS AMENDED