Oklahoma legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Oklahoma SB1074: Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act; creating a commercial harvesting facility license. Effective date. Emergency.
Status: In committee, February 16, 2026
What the bill says
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act; defining term; requiring person to obtain a commercial harvesting facility license for certain purpose; authorizing the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to require application and inspection for licensure; establishing license fee; requiring application for license after certain license expires; providing for promulgation of rules; amending 29 O.S. 2021, Section 4-106, which relates to commercial hunting areas; removing reference to certain type of license; updating statutory language; providing for codification…
From the engrossed text, March 31, 2025:
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act; defining term; requiring person to obtain a commercial harvesting facility license for certain purpose; authorizing the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to require application and inspection for licensure; establishing license fee; requiring application for license after certain license expires; providing for promulgation of rules; amending 29 O.S. 2021, Section 4-106, which relates to commercial hunting areas; removing reference to certain type of license; updating statutory language; providing for codification; providing for effective date; and declaring an emergency. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6-517 of Title 2, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: A. For purposes of this section, "commercial harvesting facility" means a privately or publicly owned premises managed or engaged on a business basis for the harvesting or hunting of legally acquired and privately owned cervidae, which may include whitetailed deer, mule deer, and elk, cervidae hybrids, turkey, exotic ENGR. S. B. NO. 1074 Page spec ies, and exotic hybrid species, for barter, for the offer to sell, or for the possession with intent to sell for profit or monetary gain. B. No person may propagate or hold in …