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SB621 • 2026

Solid waste management; exempting combustor entities subject to certain state and federal oversight from certain subsequent regulation. Emergency.

Solid waste management; exempting combustor entities subject to certain state and federal oversight from certain subsequent regulation. Emergency.

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Sponsor
Reinhardt
Last action
2025-02-19
Official status
Placed on General Order
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Solid waste management; exempting combustor entities subject to certain state and federal oversight from certain subsequent regulation. Emergency.

Solid waste management; exempting combustor entities subject to certain state and federal oversight from certain subsequent regulation.

What This Bill Does

  • Solid waste management; exempting combustor entities subject to certain state and federal oversight from certain subsequent regulation.
  • Emergency.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 621 (Senate): Introduced (1/14/2025) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 621 (Senate): SB621 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-19 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  2. 2025-02-13 Senate

    Reported Do Pass Energy committee; CR filed

  3. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Energy

  4. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Reinhardt

Official Summary Text

Solid waste management; exempting combustor entities subject to certain state and federal oversight from certain subsequent regulation. Emergency.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 621 (Senate): Introduced (1/14/2025)
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 621 (Senate): SB621 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

Current Bill Text

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 13, 2025

SENATE BILL NO. 621 By: Reinhardt

An Act relating to solid waste management; exempting
combustor entities subject to certain oversight from
subsequent regulation; providing for codification;
and declaring an emergency.

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 2-10-206 of Title 27A, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Any municipal waste combustor subject to oversight under 40
C.F.R., Part 60, Subpart Eb, and regulation by the Department of
Environmental Quality shall be exempt from any subsequent regulation
by the Department of Environmental Quality relating to general-
purpose waste incineration or incineration of specified waste
sources, including, but not limited to: biomedical waste; hospital,
medical, and infectious waste; commercial solid waste; and
industrial solid waste.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby

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declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON ENERGY
February 13, 2025 - DO PASS