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Legislation

Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.

Choosing a jurisdiction overrides the level. Stage is where the bill stands in its own jurisdiction's process. Direction is whether it expands or restricts benefits, recorded only where the reason can be read from the bill. Outcome is whether the instrument became law; catalog status is whether this catalog has been reconciled against it. None of this is legal advice, and a tracked item is a pointer to the official record rather than a substitute for reading it.

4 instruments in Oklahoma. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.

A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.

OklahomaState

2026 Okla. Sess. Laws c. 383 (SB 1400) Renumbers the 100 percent disabled veteran sales tax exemption from paragraph 34 to paragraph 31 of 68 O.S. § 1357

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No change to benefits Renumbers the disabled veteran sales tax exemption with the same limits.

Combines several aircraft exemptions and renumbers the general sales tax exemptions from January 1, 2027, moving the disabled veteran and surviving spouse exemption from 68 O.S. § 1357(34) to § 1357(31) with the same $25,000 and $1,000 limits. It amends the section as it stood after Laws 2025, c. 391, whose text requires registry registration with no proviso for veterans who had the card earlier, while SB 2184 of the same session merged the section into a text that keeps that proviso, so the two acts will conflict. The Tax Commission's sales tax exemption packet, revised August 2026, cites paragraph 34. Signed May 12, 2026. Watching until the effective date and the 2026 edition of the Statutes.

Sponsors

  • RaderSenate
  • PaeHouse

Touches 68 O.S. § 1357

Official record

OklahomaState

2026 Okla. Sess. Laws c. 293 (HB 2961) Waived college and technology center tuition, fees and room and board for the spouse and children of a service member killed in the line of duty

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Expands benefits Waives college tuition, fees and room and board for the spouse and children of a service member killed in the line of duty.

The TSgt Marshal Dakota Roberts Gold Star Survivor Act. Created 70 O.S. § 3218.7-2, barring resident and nonresident tuition in the state system of higher education for the spouse or children of a Gold Star recipient killed in the line of duty in any branch of the Armed Forces, where the service member was an Oklahoma resident at death or the survivor lives in Oklahoma while enrolled, and added the same survivors to the fee and room and board waiver in § 3218.7-1 and the technology center tuition and fee waivers in §§ 14-134 and 14-134.1, which are limited to five years. Signed May 11, 2026, effective November 1, 2026. Watching until the effective date.

Sponsors

  • HildebrantHouse
  • WoodsSenate

And 5 co-sponsors

Touches 70 O.S. § 3218.7-2 · 70 O.S. § 3218.7-1 · 70 O.S. § 14-134 · 70 O.S. § 14-134.1

Official record

OklahomaState

2026 Okla. Sess. Laws c. 211 (SB 2026) Let a veteran's grandchildren see military discharge papers recorded with a county clerk

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Expands benefits Lets a veteran's grandchildren see the veteran's recorded discharge papers.

Amended 19 O.S. § 270 to add grandchildren to the people a county clerk may let view or copy a veteran's recorded discharge papers, alongside the veteran, spouse and children, and widened the section from the DD Form 214 to all military discharge papers. Signed May 6, 2026, effective November 1, 2026. Watching until the effective date.

Sponsors

  • HinesSenate
  • MillerHouse

And 1 co-sponsor

Touches 19 O.S. § 270

Official record

OklahomaState

2026 Okla. Sess. Laws c. 171 (SB 1533) Made Oklahoma residence, instead of death in Oklahoma, the test for the indigent veteran and Dignity in Burial grants

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  2. In committee Done, , step 2 of 6
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  5. Signed by the governor Done, , step 5 of 6
  6. In effect Done, , step 6 of 6

Expands and restricts Makes Oklahoma residence the test for the burial grants, which reaches residents who die elsewhere but drops non-residents who die in Oklahoma.

Amended 72 O.S. §§ 34 and 36, replacing "The veteran shall have died in Oklahoma" with "The veteran shall have been a resident of this state" as an eligibility condition for both burial grants, which each pay up to $1,000 of unpaid interment or cremation costs. Signed May 1, 2026, effective November 1, 2026. The fund statute, 68 O.S. § 2368.28, still caps reimbursement at $500 per veteran and was not touched. Watching until the effective date.

Sponsors

  • StanleySenate
  • SmithHouse

Touches 72 O.S. § 34 · 72 O.S. § 36

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