HB 18172025
bill
2025 Regular Session · House bill
HB 1817
Waters and water rights; stating legislative findings; creating the Oklahoma Water Resources Board Well Driller and Pump Installer Program; effective date.
Environment, water & wildlifeBudget & taxesEnergy & utilitiesOil, gas, energy & utilities industry how tagged
Official title shown; Open States carries no separate summary for Oklahoma bills. See the AI analysis below.
Passed Senate committee Last action April 10, 2025: Referred to Appropriations
Same number in other sessions: 2026 · 2024 (bills from 2025 carry over into 2026 within the 60th Legislature).
AI analysis AI-generated
AI-generated · may be inaccurate or incomplete. Written by a language model (Workers AI, llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) from the bill's official title, actions, votes, sponsors, committee referrals and hearings in our database — not from the bill text. Check the official text on oklegislature.gov before relying on it. Not legal advice.
Authors & coauthors 3
- Principal House author
- Rande Worthen R
- Principal Senate author
- Roland Pederson R
- House coauthors
- Carl Newton R
Principal authors from Open States; coauthors read from “Coauthored by …” actions (removals applied).
Status
- Introduced
- In committee (origin chamber)
- Passed committee (origin chamber)
- Passed origin chamber
- In committee (second chamber)
- Passed committee (second chamber)
- Passed both chambers
- Sent to Governor
- Enacted / adopted
Committee referrals 5
| Referred | Chamber | Committee | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 4, 2025 | House | Energy and Natural Resources Oversight | Passed (committee substitute) March 5, 2025 |
| Feb. 4, 2025 | House | Energy | Passed (committee substitute) Feb. 5, 2025 |
| April 1, 2025 | Senate | Energy | Passed April 10, 2025 |
| April 1, 2025 | Senate | Appropriations | — |
| April 10, 2025 | Senate | Appropriations | — |
Official text & documents
- 1 Floor Amendment by KANE · PDF on oklegislature.gov
- Engrossed · PDF on oklegislature.gov
- Floor (House) · PDF on oklegislature.gov
- House Committee Substitute · PDF on oklegislature.gov
- Introduced · PDF on oklegislature.gov
- Policy Committee Recommendation · PDF on oklegislature.gov
- Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 · PDF on oklegislature.gov
3 committee reports and other documents
Official bill page: https://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1817&session=2500
Timeline 20 actions
- Feb. 3, 2025HouseFirst Reading
- Feb. 3, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative Newton
- Feb. 3, 2025HouseRemove Representative Newton as principal House author and substitute with Representative Worthen
- Feb. 4, 2025HouseSecond Reading referred to Energy and Natural Resources Oversight
- Feb. 4, 2025HouseReferred to Energy
- Feb. 5, 2025HousePolicy recommendation to the Energy and Natural Resources Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Energy
- Feb. 5, 2025HouseCoauthored by Representative(s) Newton
- March 5, 2025HouseCR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee
- March 5, 2025HouseAuthored by Senator Pederson (principal Senate author)
- March 12, 2025HouseGeneral Order
- March 12, 2025HouseAmended
- March 12, 2025HouseTitle stricken
- March 12, 2025HouseThird Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 74 Nays: 15
- March 12, 2025HouseReferred for engrossment
- March 13, 2025HouseEngrossed, signed, to Senate
- March 13, 2025SenateFirst Reading
- April 1, 2025SenateSecond Reading referred to Energy Committee then to Appropriations Committee
- April 10, 2025SenateReported Do Pass as amended Energy committee; CR filed
- April 10, 2025SenateEnacting clause stricken
- April 10, 2025SenateReferred to Appropriations
On committee agendas 1
- Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 9:00 a.m. — House Energy and Natural Resources Oversight
Momentum: 56 of 100
| Stage (Passed committee (second chamber)) | 31 / 50 |
|---|---|
| Recency (50 days before May 30, 2025) | 11 / 20 |
| Committee progress | 10 / 10 |
| Coauthors | 4 / 10 |
| Bipartisan sponsorship | 0 / 10 |
How this is calculated
- Stage reached — up to 50. 50 × (stage − 1) ÷ 8, where the stages are 1 Introduced · 2 In committee · 3 Passed committee · 4 Passed its first chamber · 5 In committee in the second chamber · 6 Passed that committee · 7 Passed both chambers · 8 Sent to the Governor · 9 Enacted / adopted.
- Recency — up to 20. 20 if the last recorded action was within 14 days of the reference date, falling in a straight line to 0 at 90 days. The reference date is the earlier of the data date (Oct. 1, 2026) and the session's last scheduled day, so a finished session is scored as it stood when it ended.
- Committee progress — up to 10. 5 for each chamber in which a committee reported the bill favourably.
- Coauthors — up to 10. 1 per coauthor (max 7), plus 3 if its authors and coauthors include members of both chambers.
- Bipartisan sponsorship — 10. 10 if the authors and coauthors include at least one Republican and one Democrat.
Rules on top: an enacted bill (signed, law without signature, or veto overridden) or an adopted resolution scores 100. A vetoed bill without an override, or one whose last committee vote failed, has its score halved.
Disclaimer. The momentum score is an automated, rough indicator built only from the public record (stage, dates, authors and committee reports). It is not a prediction, does not measure merit or support, and can be wrong when an action is mis-recorded or an author is mis-matched. Coauthors are read from the action text (“Coauthored by …”). Always check the official record on oklegislature.gov.