Bill > SB952

This bill makes two key changes to Oklahoma election law. First, it modifies Section 3-123 to require (rather than just allow) school boards and municipal governing boards to provide rooms in school or municipal buildings as polling places at no cost, ensuring more accessible voting locations. Second, it amends Section 14-115.1 to expand the types of medical professionals who can provide a sworn statement for voters with physical incapacities seeking an absentee ballot, now including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and licensed midwives in addition to physicians. The bill maintains existing rules about absentee ballot requests, such as requiring the voter or a witness to sign the request, limiting agents to those at least 16 years old who are not employed by or closely related to anyone on the ballot, and ensuring that ballots must be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day. These changes aim to increase voting accessibility for physically incapacitated voters and ensure more consistent availability of polling places. The bill is set to become effective on November 1, 2025.

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http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb952&Session=2500