On February 16, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee passed SB 602. The bill moves the primary (not the presidential primary) from July to June. It also moves the deadline for a new or previously unqualified party to submit a petition from May 1 to March 1. That deadline, combined with a very high number of signatures, is almost certainly unconstitutional. All reported decisions, on the constitutionality of deadlines for new parties to qualify, that are earlier than May, have unanimously held that deadlines earlier than May are unconstitutional.