SB 630 Oklahoma Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Crimes and punishments; expanding scope of certain offense related to rape. Effective date.

Senate Bill 630 amends Oklahoma's existing laws regarding rape by expanding the scope of the offense. It adds a new circumstance to the definition of rape, specifically addressing situations involving students and employees of higher education institutions. Under this bill, sexual intercourse is considered rape if the victim is a secondary school student concurrently enrolled at an institution of higher education, and the perpetrator is an employee of that institution. The bill also defines what constitutes an "employee of an institution of higher education" for this section. This change is set to become effective on November 1, 2025.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Signed May 12, 2025
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What changed between versions

Floor (House) Floor (Senate) · 5 edits
MODERATE
The bill was amended to transition from the House version to the Senate version, primarily involving formatting changes, date updates, and minor text adjustments to the sponsor attribution and committee report sections. The substantive legal content regarding rape definitions and penalties remains unchanged.
TECHNICAL

Header changed from 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES' to 'SENATE FLOOR VERSION' with updated date of February 25, 2025

Sponsor attribution changed from 'Thompson, Hamilton, and Bullard of the Senate' to 'Thompson and Hamilton of the Senate'

Added 'and Duel of the House' line in sponsor attribution section

Committee report updated from 'COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND PUBLIC SAFETY OVERSIGHT' dated 04/17/2025 to 'COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY' dated February 25, 2025

Page headers changed from 'SB630 HFLR' to 'SENATE FLOOR VERSION - SB630 SFLR'

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
7
Committee
6
May 12, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor 05/08/2025
upper
May 1, 2025
Committee
Referred for enrollment
upper
May 1, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 0
lower
Apr 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Criminal Judiciary
lower
Apr 1, 2025
Committee
Referred to Criminal Judiciary
lower
Mar 11, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
lower
Mar 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Engrossed to House
upper
Mar 10, 2025
Committee
Referred for engrossment
upper
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Measure passed: Ayes: 47 Nays: 0
upper
Feb 25, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported Do Pass Public Safety committee; CR filed
upper
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
upper
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors