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SB646 • 2026

Judicial and federal official security and privacy; creating the Oklahoma Federal Official and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025. Effective date. Emergency.

Judicial and federal official security and privacy; creating the Oklahoma Federal Official and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025. Effective date. Emergency.

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Sponsor
Paxton
Last action
2025-05-08
Official status
Remove Representative Hilbert as principal House author and substitute with Representative Kerbs
Effective date
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Judicial and federal official security and privacy; creating the Oklahoma Federal Official and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025. Effective date. Emergency.

Judicial and federal official security and privacy; creating the Oklahoma Federal Official and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025.

What This Bill Does

  • Judicial and federal official security and privacy; creating the Oklahoma Federal Official and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025.
  • Effective date.
  • Emergency.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (House): Engrossed (4/9/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (House): Floor Amendment 1 (5/8/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (Senate): Introduced (1/14/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (Senate): Committee Substitute (3/4/2025)

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Amendments

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Plain English: SB646 FA1 KerbsDe-AQH(Untimely Filed) 5/8/2025 2:36:47 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Dell Kerbs Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk FLOOR AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend SB646 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.

  • SB646 FA1 KerbsDe-AQH(Untimely Filed) 5/8/2025 2:36:47 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Dell Kerbs Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk FLOOR AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend SB646 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.
  • No.
  • 13681 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) FLOOR SUBSTITUTE FOR ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO.
  • 646 By: Paxton of the Senate and Kerbs of the House FLOOR SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to education; amending 70 O.S.
Filed

Plain English: Req.

  • Req.
  • No.
  • 1810 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.
  • 646 By: Paxton COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to judicial and federal official security and privacy; amending Sections 1, 2, 3, and 5, Chapter 350, O.S.L.

Plain English: (Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.

  • (Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.
  • ________ COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (Date) I move to amend Senate Bill No.
  • 646 on Page 1, Line 20 ½ , by inserting a new SECTION 1 to read as follows, by renumbering subsequent sections, and by amending the title to conform: “SECTION 1.
  • AMENDATORY 26 O.S.

Plain English: (Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.

  • (Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.
  • ________ COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (Date) I move to amend Senate Bill No.
  • 646 on Page 4, Line 4, by deleting after the word “current” and before the word “elected”, the word “federally” and inserting the word “federal”.
  • Submitted by: _______________________ Senator Paxton Paxton-TEK-CA2-SB646 2/25/2025 10:45 AM 1

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-08 House

    Remove Representative Hilbert as principal House author and substitute with Representative Kerbs

  2. 2025-04-22 House

    CR; Do Pass Government Oversight Committee

  3. 2025-04-08 House

    Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass General Government

  4. 2025-04-01 House

    Second Reading referred to Government Oversight

  5. 2025-04-01 House

    Referred to General Government

  6. 2025-03-24 Senate

    Engrossed to House

  7. 2025-03-24 House

    First Reading

  8. 2025-03-18 Senate

    General Order, Considered

  9. 2025-03-18 Senate

    Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0

  10. 2025-03-18 Senate

    Referred for engrossment

  11. 2025-03-06 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  12. 2025-03-04 Senate

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

  13. 2025-03-04 Senate

    Emergency added

  14. 2025-03-03 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Hilbert (principal House author)

  15. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Judiciary

  16. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  17. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Paxton

Official Summary Text

Judicial and federal official security and privacy; creating the Oklahoma Federal Official and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025. Effective date. Emergency.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (House): Engrossed (4/9/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (House): Floor Amendment 1 (5/8/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (Senate): Introduced (1/14/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 646 (Senate): Committee Substitute (3/4/2025)

Current Bill Text

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ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 646 By: Paxton of the Senate

and

Hilbert of the House

An Act relating to judicial and federal official
security and privacy; amending Sections 1, 2, 3, and
5, Chapter 350, O.S.L. 2023 (20 O.S. Supp. 2024,
Sections 3011, 3012, 3013, and 3015), which relate to
the Oklahoma Judicial Security and Privacy Act of
2023; creating the Oklahoma Federal Official and
Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025; modifying
short title; modifying definition; modifying certain
exception for access to certain records; modifying
required contents of certain report; amending 26 O.S.
2021, Section 4-115.2, as amended by Section 2,
Chapter 147, O.S.L. 2023 (26 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section
4-115.2), which relates to confidentiality of
residence and mailing address; adding elected federal
officials to certain class; updating statutory
references; updating statutory language; providing an
effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY Section 1, Chapter 350, O.S.L.
2023 (20 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 3011), is amended to read as
follows:
Section 3011. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
“Oklahoma Federal Official and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of
2023 2025”.

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SECTION 2. AMENDATORY Section 2, Chapter 350, O.S.L.
2023 (20 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 3012), is amended to read as
follows:
Section 3012. As used in this act the Oklahoma Federal Official
and Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2025:
1. The term “at-risk individual” means any current elected
federal official of this state or active or retired member of the
State Judiciary, and shall also include municipal, county, tribal,
and federal judges;
2. The term “commercial entity” means any corporation,
partnership, limited partnership, proprietorship, sole
proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, or association engaged
in the buying or selling of goods or services for profit;
3. The term “covered information” means:
a. a home address, including primary residence or
secondary residences of an at-risk individual,
b. a home or personal mobile telephone number, or the
direct telephone number of a government-issued cell
phone or private extension in the chambers of an at-
risk individual,
c. a personal email address of an at-risk individual,
d. the Social Security number, driver license number, or
home address displayed on voter registration
information of an at-risk individual,

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e. the bank account or credit or debit card information
of an at-risk individual,
f. the home or other address displayed on property tax
records or held by a federal, state, or local
government agency of an at-risk individual, including
any secondary residence and any investment property at
which an at-risk individual resides for part of a
year,
g. a license plate number or home address displayed on
vehicle registration information of an at-risk
individual,
h. the identification of children under the age of
eighteen (18) of an at-risk individual or any child
under the age of twenty-six (26) whose permanent
residence is the home of the at-risk individual,
i. the full date of birth,
j. a photograph of any vehicle that legibly displays the
license plate or a photograph of a residence that
legibly displays the address of the residence of an
at-risk individual,
k. the name and address of a school or day care facility
attended by immediate family of an at-risk individual,
l. the name and address of an employer of immediate
family of an at-risk individual, or

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m. the name and address of a place of worship the at-risk
individual or immediate family of an at-risk
individual attends;
4. The term “immediate family” means a spouse, child, or parent
of an at-risk individual or any other familial relative of an at-
risk individual whose permanent residence is the same as the at-risk
individual;
5. The term “social media” means any online electronic medium
or a live chat system that:
a. primarily serves as a medium for users to interact
with content generated by other third-party users of
the medium,
b. enables users to create accounts or profiles specific
to the medium or to import profiles from another
medium, and
c. enables one or more users to generate content that can
be viewed by other third-party users of the medium;
6. The term “state agency” means:
a. an executive agency, as defined by Oklahoma Statute,
b. any county, local or municipal governing body, or
regulatory body, and
c. any state agency in the judicial branch or legislative
branch; and

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7. The term “transfer” means to sell, license, trade, or
exchange for consideration the covered information of an at-risk
individual or immediate family.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY Section 3, Chapter 350, O.S.L.
2023 (20 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 3013), is amended to read as
follows:
Section 3013. A. Each at-risk individual may:
1. File written notice of the status of the individual as an
at-risk individual, for themselves and immediate family, with each
state agency that includes information necessary to ensure
compliance with this section, as determined by the Administrative
Director of the Courts; and
2. Request that each state agency described in Section 2 3012
of this act title mark as private their covered information and that
of their immediate family.
B. State agencies shall not publicly post or publicly display
content that includes covered information of an at-risk individual
or immediate family. State agencies, upon receipt of a written
request under paragraph 1 of subsection A of this section, shall
remove the covered information of the at-risk individual or
immediate family from publicly available content not later than
seventy-two (72) hours after such receipt.
C. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a state agency from
providing access to records containing the covered information of a

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an elected federal official of this state or a member of the
judiciary to a third party if the third party:
1. Possesses a signed release from the elected federal
official, judge, or a lawful court order;
2. Is subject to the requirements of Title V of the federal
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 15 U.S.C., Section 6801 et seq.; or
3. Executes a confidentiality agreement with the state agency.
SECTION 4. AMENDATORY Section 5, Chapter 350, O.S.L.
2023 (20 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 3015), is amended to read as
follows:
Section 3015. Not later than one (1) year after the effective
date of enactment of this act, and biennially thereafter, the
Administrative Director of the Courts shall submit to the
Legislature an annual report that includes:
1. A detailed amount spent by the state and local governments
on protecting judges’ covered information of elected federal
officials and judges;
2. Where the judges’ covered information of elected federal
officials and judges was found; and
3. The collection of any new types of personal data found to be
used to identify elected federal officials or judges who have
received threats, including prior home addresses, employers, and
institutional affiliations such as nonprofit boards.

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SECTION 5. AMENDATORY 26 O.S. 2021, Section 4-115.2, as
amended by Section 2, Chapter 147, O.S.L. 2023 (26 O.S. Supp. 2024,
Section 4-115.2), is amended to read as follows:
Section 4-115.2. A. 1. The Secretary of the State Election
Board is authorized to promulgate rules to keep confidential the
residence and mailing address, upon application to do so, of
individual registered voters who are members of certain classes as
described in paragraph 2 of this subsection.
2. Classes shall be limited to any current elected federal
official of this state, the judiciary, district attorneys, assistant
district attorneys, Uniformed Services uniformed services members,
law enforcement personnel and the immediate family of law
enforcement personnel, correctional officers, the secretary,
assistant secretary, employees, and members of a county election
board or the State Election Board, persons who are protected by
victim’s protection orders, the spouses and dependents of the
members of such classes, and persons who are certified by the
Secretary of State as participants in the Address Confidentiality
Program established by Section 60.14 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma
Statutes.
3. Such address information shall be provided to a candidate or
candidate representative or other lawful authority in anticipation
or as part of a contest of candidacy or contest of an election as
provided for in this title or as part of a petition challenge as

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provided by law. However, no information concerning the address of
a certified Address Confidentiality Program participant shall be
released by election officials to any person for any purpose except
under court order.
B. As used in this section, “immediate family of law
enforcement personnel” means a spouse, child by birth or adoption,
stepchild or parent living at the same residence as the law
enforcement personnel.
SECTION 6. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 7. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
Passed the Senate the 18th day of March, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________,
2025.

Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives