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Read. Follow. Verify.Oklahoma House Bill 1448 requires disclaimers on election mailers and sets fines for violations
Last action · February 5, 2025: Referred to Elections and Ethics
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What This Bill Proposed
House Bill 1448 requires non-governmental election or campaign mail sent to Oklahoma voters to include a specific disclaimer in at least size 14 font starting November 1, 2025. Senders who fail to include the disclaimer face a $100 fine per for initial offenses, increasing to $300 on the third offense. The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is tasked with enforcement and rule-making.
Political campaigns, advocacy groups, and mailing distributors face new financial penalties and design requirements for voter outreach materials distributed by mail.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Campaigns and organizations sending election or campaign mail
Senders of election mail must modify mailer designs to include the required disclaimer in size 14 font and are subject to fines for non-compliance.
Oklahoma Ethics Commission
The Commission is assigned new enforcement duties and rule-making authority regarding election mail disclaimers.
Voters
Voters receive clearer visual distinctions between official government election notices and third-party political or advocacy mail.
Key Facts
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
6 actions- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Elections and Ethics
- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Government Oversight
- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeWithdrawn from Rules Committee
- Feb 4, 2025HouseCommitteeSecond Reading referred to Rules
- Feb 3, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative CrosswhiteHader
- Feb 3, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst Reading
Version history
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Full breakdown
Who this bill affects and the strongest case for and against it, written only from the bill’s own text.
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Sources
www.oklegislature.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 50)
- Controversy35Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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