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OK SB952

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Dave Rader

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • School boards would be required (changed from "may") to furnish rooms in school buildings for use as polling places at no cost, matching the existing requirement for municipal governing boards

  • Expands the list of medical professionals who can provide sworn statements for physically incapacitated voters to include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and licensed midwives, in addition to physicians

  • Incapacitated voters who become physically unable to vote in person after the absentee ballot deadline may request an absentee ballot with a sworn medical statement attesting to their condition

  • Expected or likely confinement for childbirth on election day qualifies as sufficient cause for voting absentee under the incapacitated voter provision

  • Effective date: November 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Elections; requiring school board to provide rooms as polling places; adding persons eligible to provide certain statement. Effective date.

Last Action

Second Reading referred to Judiciary

2/4/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/4/2025

Full Bill Text

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