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2026 Regular Session

HB2596

Environmental Quality Code; Uniform Environmental Permitting Act; definitions; requirements and procedures; information; meetings; effective date.

Current disposition
Pending: House Floor
Last status date
February 25, 2026
Last status update
CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee
Author
John Pfeiffer
Co-sponsors
Dave Rader

Legislative progress

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Introduced in House February 3, 2025 House committee reassignment February 11, 2026 House committee substitute February 19, 2026 House committee substitute February 25, 2026
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Oklahoma Grassroots

This legislation seeks to change the DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) permitting process, removing the process meeting, shortening the timeline from 90 to 45 days, and shortening the appeal timeline from 20 to 15 days.

Recorded floor votes

2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.

February 18, 2026 · House

House: Energy Committee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

9 yea–0 nay

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February 25, 2026 · House

House: Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

12 yea–0 nay

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Committee referrals

February 11, 2026 · House

Energy

February 4, 2025 · House

Rules

Instrument history

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  1. House Authored by Senator Rader (principal Senate author)
  2. House CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee View roll call
  3. House Policy recommendation to the Energy and Natural Resources Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Energy
  4. House Referred to Energy
  5. House Referred to Energy and Natural Resources Oversight
  6. House Withdrawn from Rules Committee
  7. House Remove Representative Hilbert as principal House author and substitute with Representative Pfeiffer
  8. House Second Reading referred to Rules
  9. House Authored by Representative Hilbert
  10. House First Reading
Source provenance
LegiScan bill ID
2049408
LegiScan session ID
2219
Source file
var/states/oklahoma/source/legiscan/2219-befa0395515d/bill/HB2596.json
Package observed
2026-07-18T22:26:27+00:00