SB208 • 2026

Wildlife; authorizing the Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement a system for registration and licensing of hunting guides. Effective date.

Vetoed

The latest official action shows the governor vetoed this bill. Check the bill history to see whether lawmakers later overrode that veto.

Sponsor: Pederson
Last action: 2025-05-15
Official status: Vetoed 05/14/2025
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Wildlife; authorizing the Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement a system for registration and licensing of hunting guides. Effective date.

Wildlife; authorizing the Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement a system for registration and licensing of hunting guides.

What This Bill Does

Wildlife; authorizing the Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement a system for registration and licensing of hunting guides.
Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 208 (House): Engrossed (4/2/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 208 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 208 (Senate): Committee Substitute (3/3/2025) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 208 (Senate): SB208 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Committee Amendment

None

Filed

Plain English: Req.

Req.
No.
1793 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.
208 By: Pederson COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to wildlife; authorizing the Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement a system for registration and licensing of hunting guides; excluding certain entities; providing for promulgation of rules; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

Bill History

2025-05-15 Senate
Vetoed 05/14/2025
2025-05-12 Senate
Enrolled, to House
2025-05-12 House
Signed, returned to Senate
2025-05-12 Senate
Sent to Governor
2025-05-08 House
General Order
2025-05-08 House
Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 53 Nays: 35
2025-05-08 House
Signed, returned to Senate
2025-05-08 Senate
Referred for enrollment
2025-04-23 House
CR; Do Pass Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee
2025-04-07 House
Policy recommendation to the Energy and Natural Resources Oversight committee; Do Pass Wildlife
2025-04-01 House
Second Reading referred to Energy and Natural Resources Oversight
2025-04-01 House
Referred to Wildlife
2025-03-27 Senate
Engrossed to House
2025-03-27 House
First Reading
2025-03-26 Senate
General Order, Considered
2025-03-26 Senate
Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0
2025-03-26 Senate
Referred for engrossment
2025-03-05 Senate
Placed on General Order
2025-03-03 Senate
Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Agriculture and Wildlife committee; CR filed
2025-03-03 Senate
Coauthored by Representative Burns (principal House author)
2025-02-04 Senate
Second Reading referred to Agriculture and Wildlife
2025-02-03 Senate
First Reading
2025-02-03 Senate
Authored by Senator Pederson

Official Summary Text

Wildlife; authorizing the Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement a system for registration and licensing of hunting guides. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 208 (House): Engrossed (4/2/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 208 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 208 (Senate): Committee Substitute (3/3/2025)
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 208 (Senate): SB208 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

Current Bill Text

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An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 208 By: Pederson of the Senate

and

Burns of the House

An Act relating to wildlife; authorizing the
Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement a
system for registration and licensing of hunting
guides; excluding certain entities; providing for
promulgation of rules; providing for codification;
and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT: Hunting guides

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 4-112B of Title 29, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A. The Department of Wildlife Conservation shall, for the
safety and security of landowners and hunters in this state, create
a system of registration and licensing for any person or entity
providing guiding services in this state, excluding those services
provided for commercial hunting facilities and landowners providing
guiding services on their own property.

B. The Department shall promulgate all rules necessary to
implement the provisions of this section.

SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

ENR. S. B. NO. 208 Page 2
Passed the Senate the 26th day of March, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 8th 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: _________________________________