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SB8 • 2026

Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; providing for benefits increase.

Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; providing for benefits increase.

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Sponsor
Weaver
Last action
2025-02-26
Official status
Coauthored by Representative May (principal House author)
Effective date
Not listed

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Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; providing for benefits increase.

Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; providing for benefits increase.

What This Bill Does

  • Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; providing for benefits increase.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 8 (Senate): Introduced (12/6/2024) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 8 (Senate): Committee Substitute (2/25/2025) OPLAA Actuarial Statements For SB 8 (Senate): SB8 INT AO.PDF (OPLAA (Senate)) OPLAA Actuarial Statements For SB 8 (Senate): SB8 CS AO.PDF (OPLAA (Senate)) OPLAA Actuarial Statements For SB 8 (Senate): SB8 INT FI.PDF (OPLAA (Senate))

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: RBS No.

  • RBS No.
  • 1725 Req.
  • No.
  • 1725 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.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-26 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative May (principal House author)

  2. 2025-02-25 Senate

    Referred to Legislative Actuary under 62 O.S., Section 3108

  3. 2025-02-06 Senate

    Coauthored by Senator Frix

  4. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Retirement and Government Resources Committee then to Appropriations Committee

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  6. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Weaver

Official Summary Text

Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System; providing for benefits increase.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 8 (Senate): Introduced (12/6/2024)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 8 (Senate): Committee Substitute (2/25/2025)
OPLAA Actuarial Statements For SB 8 (Senate): SB8 INT AO.PDF (OPLAA (Senate))
OPLAA Actuarial Statements For SB 8 (Senate): SB8 CS AO.PDF (OPLAA (Senate))
OPLAA Actuarial Statements For SB 8 (Senate): SB8 INT FI.PDF (OPLAA (Senate))

Current Bill Text

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RBS No. 1725

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 8 By: Weaver and Frix

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

<StartFT>An Act relating to the Oklahoma Firefighters
Pension and Retirement System; providing for benefits
increase subject to certain exception; defining term;
and providing for codification. <EndFT>

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 49-143.8 of Title 11, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, and
persons receiving benefits pursuant to Section 49-101 of Title 11 of
the Oklahoma Statutes, any member of the Oklahoma Firefighters
Pension and Retirement System receiving benefits from the System as
of June 30, 2025, who continues to receive benefits on or after the
effective date of this act shall receive a two percent (2%) increase
in benefits.
B. 1. For any member of the System who joined prior to January
1, 1981, who shall have his or her pension or the pension of his or
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her surviving spouse increased or decreased by one-half (1/2) of all
increases or decreases which shall occur in the salary of a regular
firefighter in the municipality from which the member is receiving a
pension, any increase in benefits shall be used to offset the
increase provided in subsection A of this section.
2. For the purposes of this section, “regular firefighter”
means a salaried firefighter who has reached his or her maximum
salary as a private in his or her department and has not been
promoted to a position of rank.
C. Effective July 1, 2026, any persons receiving benefits
pursuant to Section 49-101 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes
shall receive an increase of two percent (2%) of the amount
prescribed in Section 49-143.7 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

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