All Roll Calls
Yes: 115 • No: 0
OklahomaHB 1373Oklahoma 2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Commercial solar facilities; creating the Commercial Solar Facility Decommissioning Act; defining terms; effective date.
Sponsored By: Brad Boles (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Senate Committee
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Financial security for solar site cleanup
Beginning November 1, 2025, the company must give you financial assurance to cover cleanup. The amount must at least equal removal cost minus salvage value and any amount already pledged to debt, based on an Oklahoma-licensed engineer’s estimate. Acceptable forms include an investment-grade parent guarantee, a letter of credit, or a bond. The estimate must be updated by the 10th anniversary and at least every five years after. The company must deliver the assurance by the earlier of lease end or the 20th anniversary, cannot cancel it without a qualified replacement, and pays all related costs.
Solar companies must remove and restore land
Beginning November 1, 2025, solar leases must require the company to remove its equipment when operations end. It must take out panels, transformers, and substations, and pull foundations and buried cable at least 3 feet deep, then backfill with similar soil. If you ask within 180 days after the later of (1) when the site stops generating commercially or (2) when you get written decommissioning notice, the company must remove roads it built, large rocks over 12 inches, and overhead lines, and return the land to a tillable state. Pasture must be reseeded with native grasses, or if that is not economically feasible, noninvasive grasses. You lose these request rights if you miss the 180-day window.
Solar landowners keep rights; courts can act
Beginning November 1, 2025, any lease term that waives these duties is void. You keep the law’s removal and restoration rights even if the contract says otherwise. If you are harmed by a violation, you can ask a court to stop it. These remedies are in addition to your other legal rights.
Law covers only commercial generation solar sites
Beginning November 1, 2025, these rules apply only to commercial solar generation sites covered by the Act. If your project is not a covered generation site, the removal, restoration, and financial-assurance rules do not apply. Check your facility type before relying on these protections.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Brad Boles
Republican • House
Cosponsors
CrosswhiteHader
Affiliation unavailable
Grant Green
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/28/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/17/2025
Top_of_Page
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 3/3/2025
Top_of_Page
Yes: 94 • No: 0
House vote • 2/26/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 14 • No: 0
House vote • 2/12/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Approved by Governor 05/03/2025
5/5/2025HouseSent to Governor
4/29/2025HouseEnrolled measure signed, returned to House
4/29/2025SenateEnrolled, signed, to Senate
4/29/2025HouseReferred for enrollment
4/28/2025HouseEngrossed measure signed, returned to House
4/28/2025SenateMeasure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0
4/28/2025SenateGeneral Order, Considered
4/28/2025SenatePlaced on General Order
4/22/2025SenateReported Do Pass Energy committee; CR filed
4/17/2025SenateSecond Reading referred to Energy
4/1/2025SenateFirst Reading
3/4/2025SenateEngrossed, signed, to Senate
3/4/2025HouseReferred for engrossment
3/3/2025HouseThird Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 94 Nays: 0
3/3/2025HouseCoauthored by Representative(s) CrosswhiteHader
3/3/2025HouseGeneral Order
3/3/2025HouseCR; Do Pass Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee
2/26/2025HouseAuthored by Senator Green (principal Senate author)
2/13/2025HousePolicy recommendation to the Energy and Natural Resources Oversight committee; Do Pass Energy
2/13/2025HouseReferred to Energy
2/4/2025HouseSecond Reading referred to Energy and Natural Resources Oversight
2/4/2025HouseAuthored by Representative Boles
2/3/2025HouseFirst Reading
2/3/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled (final version)
4/28/2025
Floor (Senate)
4/21/2025
Senate Committee Report
4/17/2025
Engrossed
3/4/2025
Floor (House)
2/28/2025
House Committee Report
2/26/2025
House Policy Committee Report
2/13/2025
Introduced
1/15/2025
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