The Oklahoma Emergency Weather Response and Tracking Regulatory Act of 2025 establishes a framework for professional severe weather trackers, allowing qualified media outlets and institutions of higher education to hire or contract with these individuals. The bill defines key terms, including "professional severe weather tracker," "qualified media outlet," and "significant weather event," and sets forth requirements for these trackers, such as completing an emergency driving course and maintaining liability insurance. Additionally, it mandates that vehicles used by professional severe weather trackers display distinctive markings and allows them to be designated as authorized emergency vehicles during significant weather events, granting them certain exemptions from traffic regulations.

The bill amends existing laws to include primary vehicles of professional severe weather trackers as authorized emergency vehicles, provided they yield to other emergency vehicles. It also updates the requirements for distinctive markings on emergency vehicles, specifying that professional severe weather trackers must use a combination of green and white flashing lights. Violations of the act may result in fines, and the legislation clarifies that it does not restrict individuals from engaging in recreational or commercial storm tracking. The act is set to take effect on July 1, 2025, and includes provisions for emergency implementation.