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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL 1629 By: Goodwin, Pittman, and Deck
of the House
and
Young of the Senate
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to elections; amending 26 O.S. 2021,
Section 4-101, which relates to voter registration;
modifying conditions for voter eligibility; and
providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 26 O.S. 2021, Section 4 -101, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 4-101. Every person who is a qualifie d elector as
defined by Section 1 of Article III of the Oklahoma Constitution
shall be entitled to become a registered voter in the precinct o f
his or her residence, with the following conditions:
1. Persons convicted of a felony shall be eligible to register
to vote when they have :
a. fully served their sentence of court -mandated calendar
days or had their sentence discharged , including any
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term of incarceration, parole or supervision, or
completed a period of probation ordered by any court ,
b. received a commutation that reduced the sentence of
any active felony conviction to time served pursuant
to federal or state law and have no other outst anding
sentence under any other felony conviction ,
c. received a commutation pursuant to subsection F of
Section 332.2 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes for
a crime that has been reclassified from a felony to a
misdemeanor and has no remaining time to s erve,
including:
(1) any incomplete term of incarceration,
(2) any remaining parole or supervision, or
(3) any incomplete period of probation , or
d. been granted a pardon pursuant to federal or state law
and have no other outstanding sentence under any other
felony conviction; and
2. Any person who has been adjudged to be an incapacitated
person as such term is defined by Section 1 -111 of Title 30 of the
Oklahoma Statutes shall be ineligible to register to vote. When
such incapacitated person has been adj udged to be no longer
incapacitated such person shall be eligible to become a registered
voter. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prohibit any
person adjudged to be a partially incapacitated person as such term
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is defined by Section 1-111 of Title 30 of the Oklahoma Statutes
from being eligible to register to vote unless the order adjudging
the person to be partially incapacitated restricts such person from
being eligible to register to vote.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effec tive January 1, 2025.
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