Oklahoma 2025 chapter 491: nuclear energy feasibility study

Oklahoma's 2025 chapter 491, approved 9 June 2025, orders a Corporation Commission feasibility study of nuclear generation, including small modular reactors and microreactors. It takes effect on approval. It does not permit a plant or appropriate money in the text that was opened.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: statute · 2025 O.S.L. 491
Issued by: Oklahoma Legislature
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Affects: State programme administration
In effect from: 9 Jun 2025 · actual · day
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Oklahoma 2025 session law chapter 491 (OSCN session-law page opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Enrolled act approved 9 June 2025. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is directed to start, within 90 days after the effective date, engaging an outside firm for a technical and legal feasibility study of nuclear energy generation. The study list includes small modular nuclear reactor and microreactor capability and siting criteria. Findings are to be delivered within nine months after the effective date. An emergency clause says the act takes effect upon passage and approval. The page caption prints HB 0130. The enrolled line prints Senate Bill No. 130.

Not approved or still pending

The 90-day engagement period and the nine-month delivery period are not converted to calendar days. Delivery of the study was not opened. The act contains no appropriation in the text that was read. The HB 0130 caption and the Senate Bill 130 enrolled line are both printed and are not resolved. The act does not permit a reactor. No project is linked.

Dated lifecycle

9 Jun 2025 · actual · day · Signed — The page prints approval on the 9th day of June, 2025. Senate passage is printed as 22 May 2025 and House passage as 27 May 2025. The emergency clause makes the act effective on passage and approval. (Oklahoma 2025 session law chapter 491)

Projects or designs named by the source

None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.

Sources

Oklahoma 2025 session law chapter 491 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)