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SB979 • 2026

Memorial bridges; designating the Novak and Jean Bullard Memorial Bridge. Effective date.

Memorial bridges; designating the Novak and Jean Bullard Memorial Bridge. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Bullard
Last action
2025-02-12
Official status
Placed on General Order
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Memorial bridges; designating the Novak and Jean Bullard Memorial Bridge. Effective date.

Memorial bridges; designating the Novak and Jean Bullard Memorial Bridge.

What This Bill Does

  • Memorial bridges; designating the Novak and Jean Bullard Memorial Bridge.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 979 (Senate): Introduced (1/23/2025)

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. 2025-02-12 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  2. 2025-02-10 Senate

    Reported Do Pass Aeronautics and Transportation committee; CR filed

  3. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Aeronautics and Transportation

  4. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Bullard

Official Summary Text

Memorial bridges; designating the Novak and Jean Bullard Memorial Bridge. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 979 (Senate): Introduced (1/23/2025)

Current Bill Text

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 10, 2025

SENATE BILL NO. 979 By: Bullard

An Act relating to memorial highway and bridge
designations; designating the Novak and Jean Bullard
Memorial Bridge; 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 1698.468 of Title 69, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The bridge on U.S. Highway 69 crossing over West Main Street of
Durant in Bryan County shall be designated as the “Novak and Jean
Bullard Memorial Bridge”. The Department of Transportation shall
cause suitable permanent markers bearing that name to be placed on
the bridge.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON AERONAUTICS AND TRANSPORTATION
February 10, 2025 - DO PASS