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SB198 • 2026

Property; authorizing use of certain contingency for certain real estate contracts. Effective date.

Property; authorizing use of certain contingency for certain real estate contracts. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Brooks
Last action
2025-05-15
Official status
Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025
Effective date
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Property; authorizing use of certain contingency for certain real estate contracts. Effective date.

Property; authorizing use of certain contingency for certain real estate contracts.

What This Bill Does

  • Property; authorizing use of certain contingency for certain real estate contracts.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 198 (House): Engrossed (4/9/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 198 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 198 (Senate): Committee Substitute (3/4/2025)

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: Req.

  • Req.
  • No.
  • 1688 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 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO.
  • 198 By: Brooks COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to real property; authorizing use of certain contingency for real estate contracts for municipalities, counties, and the state; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-15 Senate

    Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025

  2. 2025-05-08 House

    Signed, returned to Senate

  3. 2025-05-08 Senate

    Enrolled, to House

  4. 2025-05-08 Senate

    Sent to Governor

  5. 2025-05-07 House

    General Order

  6. 2025-05-07 House

    Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 0

  7. 2025-05-07 House

    Signed, returned to Senate

  8. 2025-05-07 Senate

    Referred for enrollment

  9. 2025-04-17 House

    CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee

  10. 2025-04-07 House

    Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Civil Judiciary

  11. 2025-04-01 House

    Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

  12. 2025-04-01 House

    Referred to Civil Judiciary

  13. 2025-03-12 Senate

    Engrossed to House

  14. 2025-03-12 House

    First Reading

  15. 2025-03-11 Senate

    General Order, Considered

  16. 2025-03-11 Senate

    Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0

  17. 2025-03-11 Senate

    Referred for engrossment

  18. 2025-03-06 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  19. 2025-03-05 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Kannady (principal House author)

  20. 2025-03-04 Senate

    Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary committee; CR filed

  21. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Judiciary

  22. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  23. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Brooks

Official Summary Text

Property; authorizing use of certain contingency for certain real estate contracts. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 198 (House): Engrossed (4/9/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 198 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 198 (Senate): Committee Substitute (3/4/2025)

Current Bill Text

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An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 198 By: Brooks of the Senate

and

Kannady of the House

An Act relating to real property; authorizing use of
certain contingency for real estate contracts for
municipalities, counties, and the state; providing
for codification; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT: Real estate contracts

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 43-116 of Title 11, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A municipality may enter into a real estate contract for the
sale, conveyance, or exchange of real property, option to purchase
real property, or a lease with an option to purchase real property
that includes a contingency, not to exceed one hundred eighty (180)
days, for the purposes of securing required permits, lot changes,
zoning changes, and any other land use approvals necessary to use
and operate the real property.

SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 865.70 of Title 19, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A county may enter into a real estate contract for the sale,
conveyance, or exchange of real property, option to purchase real
property, or a lease with an option to purchase real property that
includes a contingency, not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days,

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for the purposes of securing required permits, lot changes, zoning
changes, and any other land use approvals necessary to use and
operate the real property.

SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 110.6 of Title 74, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

The state may enter into a real estate contract for the sale,
conveyance, or exchange of real property, option to purchase real
property, or a lease with an option to purchase real property that
includes a contingency, not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days,
for the purposes of securing required permits, lot changes, zoning
changes, and any other land use approvals necessary to use and
operate the real property.

SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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Passed the Senate the 11th day of March, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 7th day of May, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives

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: _________________________________