Legislation Tracker
Oklahoma AI & Energy Bills: 2026 Session
Tracking 12 bills across AI governance, energy policy, and data privacy in the Oklahoma Legislature.
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Plain-language briefs on the bills that became law, plus a model framework for the transparency gap none of them filled. Written to be handed up the chain unedited.
Per-bill briefs
Bill Brief Bill Brief: HB 2992, Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act One-page staff brief on HB 2992: what the law does, who it applies to, its effective date, and what utilities and large-load customers must do now. Bill Brief Bill Brief: SB 1521, Minor Protection from AI (Conversational AI Services) One-page staff brief on SB 1521: what the chatbot-protection law does, who it applies to, when it was enacted, and what operators must do now. Bill Brief Bill Brief: SB 1734, Oklahoma Responsible Technology in Schools Act One-page staff brief on SB 1734: what the AI-in-schools law does, who it applies to, its effective date, and what districts must do now. Bill Brief Bill Brief: SB 259, Data Center Groundwater Protection Act One-page staff brief on SB 259: what the law does, who it applies to, when it was signed, and what large-load data centers must do now.Request drafting or ask a question
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Data Center Infrastructure Costs
Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026
Vote: 92-2 (House)
In effect as of July 1, 2026. Signed by Gov. Stitt in May 2026. Requires large-load customers (75+ MW) to pay for new grid infrastructure, mandates separate tariffs with credit requirements, and requires developers to notify the Corporation Commission, county commissioners, and neighboring property owners within 60 days of buying land for a project.
Ensures data center operators bear proportional costs for grid infrastructure upgrades rather than passing them to residential ratepayers. Defines large-load customers as 75+ MW facilities. Now the tariff framework the Oklahoma Corporation Commission must apply to the first live loads. Covered in depth in Issue #17 (The Meter Goes Live) and Issue #19 (The Gate).
Groundwater Metering & Closed-Loop Cooling
Data Center Groundwater Protection Act
Signed by Gov. Stitt May 20, 2026. Final language defines penalties for failure to report groundwater usage, requires data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to qualify for a groundwater usage permit, protects users who draw less than their permitted amount from allocation reductions, and creates a complaint process through the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
The water-side companion to HB 2992's cost-attribution floor: metering and closed-loop cooling for large-load data centers. Of direct relevance to Phoenix Wells and geothermal procurement, since enhanced geothermal does not consume the cooling-tower water cycle most hyperscale data centers rely on. Covered in Issue #15 (Water on the Meter).
Chatbot Safety (House Companion)
Chatbot Safety for Minors Act
Passed the House but did not complete the process before sine die adjournment in mid-May. Its policy territory was carried by SB 1521, which was enacted. Bills not enacted by the end of the 2026 session (the second session of the 60th Legislature) are dead and do not carry over.
House companion to SB 1521. The Senate vehicle became law; this one did not need to.
ARC Energy Framework
Affordable, Reliable, Clean Energy Security Act
Did not advance out of committee before sine die adjournment in mid-May 2026. Dead for this legislature; the ARC framework would need to be refiled in 2027.
Would have established affordable, reliable, clean energy security as state policy priorities with reliability standards and domestic-sourcing preferences. Watch for a 2027 refile.
Data Center Energy Surcharge
Data Center Energy Surcharge Act
Did not advance out of the House Energy & Natural Resources Committee before sine die adjournment in mid-May 2026.
Would have imposed an energy surcharge on large data centers consuming above a threshold. The cost-attribution ground it aimed at was partly covered by HB 2992, which did become law.
AI Deepfake Disclosure
AI-Generated Deepfake Disclosure Act
Did not advance out of Senate Judiciary Committee before sine die adjournment in mid-May 2026.
Would have required disclosure labeling on AI-generated deepfake content in political advertising and public communications. Expect the topic to return in 2027 ahead of the election cycle.
Deepfake Election Integrity
Deepfake Election Integrity Act
Did not advance out of the House Elections & Ethics Committee before sine die adjournment in mid-May 2026.
Would have criminalized distribution of AI-generated deepfakes intended to influence elections within 90 days of an election. Likely to be refiled as 2027 approaches the midterm cycle.
AI Insurance Algorithm Transparency
Insurance Algorithm Transparency Act
Did not advance out of the Senate Insurance Committee before sine die adjournment in mid-May 2026.
Would have required insurers to disclose AI algorithm use in rate-setting and claims decisions, with a consumer appeals process.
AI in Schools
Oklahoma Responsible Technology in Schools Act
Vote: 42-0 (Senate)
Approved by Governor May 12, 2026, with emergency clause. Requires every district to adopt a written AI policy before the 2027-28 school year; mandates educator-directed, human-in-the-loop AI use; prohibits AI as the primary basis for grading, discipline, or placement; preserves parents' right to opt students out of student-facing AI tools without academic penalty.
Sets a statewide floor for AI governance in K-12: district policies, human oversight, a ban on high-stakes AI decisions, and family transparency. One of the first state frameworks of its kind.
Abandoned Wells to Geothermal
Well Repurposing Act
Vote: 85-6 (House)
Passed House 85-6 but stuck on Senate general order calendar. Did not advance by the May 7 opposite-chamber deadline. Dead for the 2026 session and does not carry over.
Would have converted abandoned oil and gas wells into geothermal energy sources. Strong House support but no Senate floor vote before deadline. Directly relevant to Phoenix Wells; a 2027 refile is the path forward.
Chatbot Protections for Minors
Minor Protection from AI (Conversational AI Services)
Vote: 43-0 (Senate)
Passed the Senate 43-0 on March 23, 2026, and was enacted before sine die adjournment. The final law regulates operators of conversational AI services that interact with minors: operators must provide parental management tools for minor accounts and ensure the AI directs users expressing self-harm or suicidal thoughts to appropriate crisis services. (The bill evolved substantially from its introduced version, which centered on age/ID verification.)
Oklahoma's framework for minor-AI chatbot interaction: parental controls and mandatory crisis-service routing rather than the ID-verification approach originally proposed.
Consumer Data Privacy
Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act
Vote: 84-4 (House)
Signed into law in March 2026. House passed 84-4.
Oklahoma's first comprehensive consumer data privacy law, joining roughly twenty states with comprehensive frameworks: gives residents rights over personal data collection, sale, and deletion by companies.