Oklahoma alcohol laws

What Oklahoma has enacted on alcohol, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. Oklahoma is one of 47 states that enacted an alcohol law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

Bills in scope
44bills in scope
Past committee
32past committee
Most recent action
14 May 2026most recent action

Alcohol laws enacted in Oklahoma

12 alcohol laws enacted in the Oklahoma Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.

  • SB 1946Alcoholic beverages; decreasing alcohol license fee; allowing sale of certain sample spirits at certain events; removing certain production limits for distilleries. Effective date.Took effect 1 November 2026

    What it requires: Distillers must not exceed 15,000 gallons per calendar year in combined spirits sales under paragraphs 5 and 6. Brewers and small brewers may not require distributors to accept unordered beer deliveries. Manufacturers and nonresident sellers may not require wine and spirits wholesalers to accept unordered alcoholic beverages.

    Licensing and retail permits, Excise taxes and fees

  • HB 3501Alcoholic beverages; ABLE Commission; multiple licenses; manufacturing beverages; alternating proprietorship or premises; effective date.Took effect 1 November 2026

    What it does: This floor amendment to HB 3501 modifies language regarding alcoholic beverage licenses by adding the word 'and' before 'manufacturer's' and removing the phrase ', and satellite tasting room license' from the bill text.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • SB 592Alcoholic beverages; allowing certain distributors to issue certain credit to certain retailer; limiting number of certain credits. Effective date.Took effect 1 November 2026

    What it requires: Beer distributors, small brewer self-distributors, and brewpub self-distributors may issue a credit to retailers for beer or cider removed from the retailer's premises only after making two quality control replacements for the same brand within one calendar year. The credit is limited to once per calendar year per retailer, four cases maximum, and may only apply to future purchases, not refunds.

    Three-tier, distribution and franchise

  • HB 3530Alcoholic beverages; books and records of licensees; timeframe; effective date.Took effect 1 November 2026

    What it requires: Licensees under the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act must keep books, records, inventories, invoices, and other accounting documents for three years and make them available for inspection within ten business days after being requested by authorized representatives of the ABLE Commission or Oklahoma Tax Commission.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 3522Alcoholic beverages; ABLE Commission; annual report; submission to certain individuals; availability online; effective date.Took effect 1 November 2026

    What it requires: The ABLE Commission must prepare an annual report by January 31 of each year listing the number of licenses revoked or suspended with basis for action, number of tickets written, total ticket amounts, and total penalties. The report must be delivered to the Governor, Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and made public on the ABLE website.

  • SB 1031Alcoholic beverage licenses; grounds to deny license; excluding certain license from certain provision.Enacted 29 May 2025

    What it requires: The ABLE Commission must refuse to issue or renew wine and spirits wholesaler, beer distributor, retail spirits, retail wine, or retail beer licenses if the applicant or any partner fails to meet specified qualifications, including citizenship, age, criminal history, residency, tax compliance, and other statutory grounds. Limited liability partnerships are recognized as partnerships, not similar entities to limited liability companies, under the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 2803Alcoholic beverages; termination of distribution agreements; requirements; arbitration; inventory; effective date.Took effect 1 November 2025

    What it requires: Brewers must establish good cause and provide beer distributors sixty days' written notice to cure noncompliance before terminating distributor agreements, except for immediate termination grounds including payment failure, insolvency, license revocation, felony conviction, unauthorized ownership transfer, fraudulent conduct, business cessation, or unauthorized sales outside territory. Brewers must pay fair market value for distribution rights and purchase remaining inventory at laid-in cost upon termination.

    Three-tier, distribution and franchise

  • SB 1032Alcoholic beverages; licensed establishments; employees; affirmative defense; violations; authorizing ABLE Commission to present evidence. Effective date.Took effect 1 November 2025

    What it requires: Licensed establishments must require employees to maintain valid ABLE Commission employee licenses, present seller-server training certificates within fourteen days of hire and every two years thereafter, adopt written policies prohibiting sale or service of alcoholic beverages to minors, intoxicated persons, or those who are insane or mentally deficient, and obtain written employee acknowledgment of these policies.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 2369Alcoholic beverages; Marissa Murrow Act; event venue license; definitions; license fee; caterer license; effective date.Enacted 14 May 2025

    What it does: This committee amendment to HB 2369 changes the scope of an event venue license provision from covering only beer and wine to covering all alcoholic beverages.

    Licensing and retail permits, Excise taxes and fees

  • HB 2804Alcoholic beverages; prohibited acts of licensees; effective date.Took effect 1 November 2025

    What it requires: Licensees of the ABLE Commission must knowingly receive, possess or sell alcoholic beverages only as authorized by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act and their license. Licensees must not deliver more than two drinks to one person at one time, except tasting flights or up to six beer bottles in original packaging. Licensees must not permit patrons to exit with open containers except under specified conditions.

    Licensing and retail permits

  • HB 1062Alcoholic beverages; employee license; age; restrictions; effective date.Took effect 1 November 2025

    What it requires: Holders of employee licenses must be at least eighteen years old, except employees of grocery stores or convenience stores who must be at least sixteen. Persons under twenty-one years of age cannot be employed to sell spirits. Individuals eighteen years and older may serve beer and wine from original containers or pre-made mixed drinks. First-time applicants must complete ABLE Commission-approved training within fourteen days of initial licensure.

    Licensing and retail permits, Underage sales and liability

  • HB 1270Alcoholic beverages; Alcoholic Law Enforcement Commission; license denial; time period; effective date.Enacted 23 April 2025

    What it does: This committee amendment deletes language from HB1270 that would have created a presumptive license issuance if the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Enforcement Commission failed to adhere to specified provisions.

    Licensing and retail permits

Alcohol in Oklahoma, by topic

Alcohol bills in Oklahoma

The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.

12Enacted

1Cleared both chambers

19Past committee

12Introduced or inactive

44 bills in scope

Cleared both chambers

1

SB 465Alcoholic beverages; exempting certain organizations from certain number of licenses issued each year.Vetoed

What it would do: Amends charitable alcoholic beverage license law to exempt institutions of higher education from the eight-license-per-year limit for charitable alcoholic beverage events and the four-license-per-year limit for charitable auctions.

Past committee

19

HB 1381Alcoholic beverages; mixed beverage license; complimentary tasting; wholesalers; effective date.Passed chamber

What it would do: Requires the ABLE Commission to prepare an annual report by December 31 listing licenses revoked or suspended with bases, tickets written, total ticket amounts, and total penalties, and to make this report public on the ABLE website.

HB 4248Public health and safety; prohibiting the sale of beverages containing hemp to anyone of a specific age; effective date.Passed chamber

What it would do: Prohibits the sale of beverages containing hemp to any person under 21 years of age. The act becomes effective November 1, 2026.

SB 1767Alcoholic beverages; prohibiting retailer from shipping alcoholic beverages; allowing Attorney General to enforce provisions; allowing ABLE Commission to initiate investigations; creating revolving fund. Effective date. Emergency.Passed chamber

What it would do: Prohibits Oklahoma legislators from consuming, possessing, or being under the influence of alcohol while performing official legislative duties or within the State Capitol Building, with penalties ranging from fines and chamber expulsion to permanent expulsion and removal proceedings for violations.

HB 3011Alcoholic beverages; personal use manufacturing; requirements; personal use permit; repealer; effective date.Passed chamber

What it would do: Removes the requirement for a personal use permit to make beer, cider, or wine for personal use, instead requiring only that the maker be 21 years or older and produce less than 200 gallons per calendar year. Repeals the personal use permit statute and updates related excise tax exemptions.

SB 1442Alcoholic beverage license fees; establishing certain micro-distiller license; providing certain production limits; establishing exception to certain licensing requirements; limiting certain fine amount. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Prohibits Oklahoma legislators from consuming, possessing, or being under the influence of alcohol while performing official legislative duties or within the State Capitol Building, with penalties ranging from $500 to $5,000 fines and chamber expulsion for violations.

HB 3851Alcoholic beverages; definitions; providing additional definitions; effective date.Passed committee
HB 3334Alcoholic beverages; Limited Retail-to-On-Premises Alcohol Supply Act; definitions; purchase; recordkeeping; reporting; promulgating rules; effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Allows on-premises alcohol licensees to purchase sealed alcoholic beverages directly from off-premises retailers under specified conditions, including tax compliance, recordkeeping requirements, and prohibitions on tied-house violations and brand exclusivity arrangements.

SB 1218Alcoholic beverage license; removing certain personal use permit provisions.. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Prohibits Oklahoma legislators from consuming, possessing, or being under the influence of alcohol while performing official legislative duties or within the State Capitol Building, with penalties ranging from fines of $500 to $5,000 and chamber expulsion to permanent removal from office.

SB 1046Alcoholic beverages; licenses; establishing certain limits for licensure. Effective date.Passed chamber

What it would do: Establishes delivery service and delivery driver licenses for alcoholic beverages, allowing licensed delivery services to transport beer, wine, and spirits from retailers to consumers 21+. Creates the Alcohol Abuse Revolving Fund and adjusts various license fees and surcharges.

HB 1381Alcoholic beverages; grounds to deny license; prohibiting certain grounds for denial of license; excluding certain license from certain provision; effective date.Passed chamber

What it would do: Amends Oklahoma alcoholic beverage licensing law to prohibit the ABLE Commission from denying licenses based on applicant business entity type and clarifies that beer distributor and wine and spirits wholesaler licensees under common ownership are not limited in business entity types.

HB 1367Alcoholic beverages; actions by employees; establishment licensed by the ABLE Commission; license; violation; effective date.Passed chamber

What it would do: Allows ABLE Commission-licensed establishments to claim employee actions are not attributable to them if they provide an affidavit within 10 days and meet training, licensing, and policy requirements; creates rebuttable presumption of indirect encouragement of violations upon three violations within 12 months.

SB 531Alcoholic beverages; modifying requirements for information to be submitted to the ABLE Commission; modifying grounds for refusal of certain licenses; modifying persons prohibited from taking certain action. Effective date.Passed chamber

What it would do: Modifies Oklahoma alcoholic beverage licensing requirements by updating information submission standards to the ABLE Commission, refining grounds for license refusal based on felony convictions and ownership percentages, and restricting ownership interests for certain prohibited persons and entities.

SB 1094Alcoholic beverage licenses; allowing certain licensees to sell certain beverages for off-premise consumption. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Allows retail spirits, wine, and beer licensees to sell beverages for off-premises consumption and allows mixed beverage licensees to hold retail licenses without ABLE Commission rules preventing operation within or adjacent to retail premises.

SB 950Alcoholic beverages; prohibiting alcoholic beverages from being sold for less than a certain amount. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Amends Oklahoma law to prohibit retail sales of alcoholic beverages for off-premises or on-premises consumption at less than a six percent markup on actual unit cost, with exceptions for clearance sales, damaged merchandise, liquidations, charitable sales, government contracts, court-ordered sales, and auction sales. Effective November 1, 2025.

SB 24Retail spirits licensees; allowing for licensed premises to operate a specified distance outside of city limits. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Amends the prohibited acts for retail spirits licensees to allow licensed premises to operate within two miles of city limits of cities or towns with populations exceeding 20,000. Effective November 1, 2025.

SB 1044Alcoholic beverages; allowing certain payment methods; establishing certain EFT payments. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Requires retail beer, wine, and spirits licensees to pay wholesalers and distributors by electronic funds transfer (EFT) initiated by the wholesaler within one banking day of delivery, with limited exceptions for insufficient funds, service interruptions, or new licenses.

SB 1099Alcoholic beverages; providing certain exceptions. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Defines vintage distilled spirits and allows unlicensed persons to sell them under specified circumstances, including fiduciaries, creditors, court officials, and others selling 24 or fewer packages annually. Effective November 1, 2025.

SB 344Alcoholic beverages; expanding exemption for offering certain inducements to a consumer for a sale of beer or wine. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Expands the exemption allowing retail wine and beer licensees to offer discounts to individuals of specific professions and current or former members of the United States Armed Forces, provided the discount does not reduce the retail price below six-percent markup. Effective November 1, 2025.

SB 272Alcoholic beverage license fees; establishing certain license fee. Effective date.Passed committee

What it would do: Amends the annual license fees for alcoholic beverages issued by the ABLE Commission, establishing specific fees for various license types including brewers, distillers, retailers, and wholesalers, effective November 1, 2025.

Introduced or inactive

5 of 12 shown

HB 3669Alcoholic beverages; distiller license; fees; distribution; sale; brand labels; effective date.In committee

What it would do: Reduces distiller license fees from $3,125 to $1,250 annually, allows distillers to sell spirits at multiple locations statewide and offer non-alcoholic substances for consumer addition, removes production limits, permits wholesalers to sell spirits back to distillers at no more than 12% markup, and exempts in-state beer and spirits from brand label registration fees.

HB 3035Alcoholic beverages; small brewer license; distilling spirits; quantity; requirements; permit; effective date.In committee

What it would do: Allows small brewer licensees to manufacture, bottle, package, and store spirits up to 1,000 gallons per calendar year, sell spirits to licensed wholesalers and manufacturers in-state, and requires obtaining a Distilled Spirits Plant permit from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

HB 3112Alcoholic beverages; Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverages Act of 2026; effective date.In committee

What it would do: Amends the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverages Act to remove restrictions on ABLE Commission members and employees making campaign contributions. Effective November 1, 2026.

HB 3210Alcoholic beverages; distiller license; wholesaler; distributor; and effective date.In committee

What it would do: Amends the distiller license provisions in Oklahoma law to allow distillers to sell spirits directly to consumers at the licensed premises, one contiguous location, and one non-contiguous location in the same county, plus at public events, limited to 15,000 gallons per calendar year combined, effective November 1, 2026.

HB 3215Alcoholic beverages; repealer; event license; effective date.In committee

Showing the 25 furthest along of 32. Subscribers see all of them, filtered and searchable. Bill titles link to the Oklahoma Legislature's own page.

What LawSignals covers

What counts as alcohol legislation

In scope: Direct-to-consumer shipping and delivery; three-tier, distribution and franchise; licensing and retail permits; excise taxes and fees; hemp and THC beverages; and underage sales and liability.

Questions

Does Oklahoma have an alcohol law?

Yes. Oklahoma enacted 12 alcohol laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them SB 1946, HB 3501 and SB 592. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.

When do Oklahoma's alcohol laws take effect?

SB 1946 on 1 November 2026, HB 3501 on 1 November 2026, SB 592 on 1 November 2026, HB 3530 on 1 November 2026 and HB 3522 on 1 November 2026. The others have no single date in their text.

Which alcohol bills are moving in Oklahoma?

20 bills not yet law have passed a committee or a chamber, the furthest along SB 465 (vetoed), HB 1381 (passed chamber) and HB 4248 (passed chamber).

What does Oklahoma legislate on most in alcohol?

Licensing and retail permits (30 bills), Three-tier, distribution and franchise (9 bills) and Excise taxes and fees (6 bills).

Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?

No. Which bills count as Alcohol bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

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