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OK SB1074

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/31/2025

Primary Sponsor

Casey Murdock

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a new "commercial harvesting facility" license administered by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry for premises engaged in commercial hunting/harvesting of privately owned cervidae (deer, elk), cervidae hybrids, turkey, and exotic species

  • Sets the annual license fee at $300, with licenses expiring August 31 each year; applicants must prove animals were secured from sources other than wild stock in Oklahoma

  • Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, State Veterinarian, or designees to inspect facilities upon probable cause of violations of the Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act

  • Transfers regulation of big game commercial hunting operations from the Department of Wildlife Conservation to the Department of Agriculture, while upland game licenses ($100 annually) remain with Wildlife Conservation

  • Effective date of July 1, 2025, with emergency clause for immediate effect upon passage and approval

Legislative Description

Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act; creating a commercial harvesting facility license. Effective date. Emergency.

Last Action

Remove Representative Strom as principal House author and substitute with Representative Archer

2/16/2026

Committee Referrals

Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee4/2/2025
Appropriations and Budget4/1/2025
Agriculture and Wildlife2/4/2025

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