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SB23 • 2026

Motor vehicles; prohibiting smoking and use of vapor products with minors present. Effective date.

Motor vehicles; prohibiting smoking and use of vapor products with minors present. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Stanley
Last action
2025-02-13
Official status
Placed on General Order
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Motor vehicles; prohibiting smoking and use of vapor products with minors present. Effective date.

Motor vehicles; prohibiting smoking and use of vapor products with minors present.

What This Bill Does

  • Motor vehicles; prohibiting smoking and use of vapor products with minors present.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 23 (Senate): Introduced (12/13/2024)

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. 2025-02-13 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  2. 2025-02-11 Senate

    Reported Do Pass Public Safety committee; CR filed

  3. 2025-02-10 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Roe (principal House author)

  4. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Public Safety

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  6. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Stanley

Official Summary Text

Motor vehicles; prohibiting smoking and use of vapor products with minors present. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 23 (Senate): Introduced (12/13/2024)

Current Bill Text

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION - SB23 SFLR Page 1
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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 11, 2025

SENATE BILL NO. 23 By: Stanley of the Senate

and

Roe of the House

An Act relating to smoking in motor vehicles;
defining terms; prohibiting certain act; providing
for penalty; requiring deposit of fee in certain
fund; providing for codification; and providing an
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 1248 of Title 21, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. “Marijuana” shall have the same meaning as provided in
Section 2-101 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
2. “Motor vehicle” shall have the same meaning as provided in
Section 1-134 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
3. “Vapor products” shall have the same meaning as provided in
Section 1-229.12 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

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B. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly smoke
tobacco or marijuana or use a vapor product in a motor vehicle while
in the presence of a minor. Any person in violation of the
provisions of this section shall be assessed a fine not less than
Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
which shall be deposited into the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
Revolving Fund established pursuant to Section 1-105d of Title 63 of
the Oklahoma Statutes.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
February 11, 2025 - DO PASS