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SB566 • 2026

Assault and battery; creating misdemeanor offense related to railroad workers. Effective date.

Assault and battery; creating misdemeanor offense related to railroad workers. Effective date.

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Assault and battery; creating misdemeanor offense related to railroad workers. Effective date.

Assault and battery; creating misdemeanor offense related to railroad workers.

What This Bill Does

  • Assault and battery; creating misdemeanor offense related to railroad workers.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 566 (Senate): Introduced (1/14/2025)

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. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Public Safety

  4. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Reinhardt

Official Summary Text

Assault and battery; creating misdemeanor offense related to railroad workers. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 566 (Senate): Introduced (1/14/2025)

Current Bill Text

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 11, 2025

SENATE BILL NO. 566 By: Reinhardt

An Act relating to assault and battery; creating
certain misdemeanor offense; providing penalties;
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 650.12 of Title 21, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Any person who, without justifiable or excusable cause and with
intent to do bodily harm, commits any assault, battery, or assault
and battery upon the person of a railroad or railway worker or any
personnel having authority in connection with the railroads and
railways of this state is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, by a
fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such
imprisonment and fine.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
February 11, 2025 - DO PASS