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Oklahoma

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Guidance HB 3619 (May 2020) — energy-choice preemption + Oklahoma Energy First HB 2747 (2025)
Enacted: 2020-05-19

Oklahoma's state-level posture on energy-choice municipal regulation. HB 3619 (signed May 19, 2020 by Gov. Kevin Stitt R) amended Oklahoma Statutes Title 11 §14-107 to prohibit cities, towns, or counties from adopting real estate development, building, or construction ordinances, rules, or codes restricting or prohibiting connections to the facilities of utility providers. Also prohibits discrimination in adoption of rules or codes against one or more utility providers based upon the nature or source of the utility service. Goal: prohibit local governments from banning natural-gas connections. Part of the 2020 AZ HB 2686 / TN / OK HB 3619 / LA La. R.S. 30:2379 preemption quartet responding to Berkeley CA's July 2019 natural-gas-infrastructure ban. Does not name lawn equipment but energy-choice framing creates legal shadow over any hypothetical Oklahoma municipal Berkeley-style GLB ordinance. Applies to charter cities (OKC, Tulsa, others) under Oklahoma Constitution Article XVIII §3. Oklahoma Energy First HB 2747 (February 2025) accelerates natural gas generation and reinstates state oversight of critical infrastructure — no SORE line items but continues Stitt administration's natural-gas-forward energy framework. No state GLB/SORE bill has been filed in the 2024 or 2025 Legislative Sessions.

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