Education
π Next Meeting: TBD
π§Ύ Bills Pending: 193
Members
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Adam Pugh
(R)
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Ally Seifried
(R)
Bills Pending in Education
SB1199: Schools; clarifying prohibitions on school district and technology center school district boards of education entering into certain contracts. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kendal Sacchieri
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SB1292: State Department of Education; directing the Department to establish the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program for students in kindergarten through three. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1373: Schools; creating the Healthy Meals for Healthy Kids Act; directing the State Department of Education to establish certain grant program. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Aaron Reinhardt
Co-sponsors: Mark Mann
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The OKGOP platform, we believe in sunset laws, zero based budgeting and performance audits to justify government programs especially when it relates to grants and federal funds with stipulations.
SB1432: Teachers; removing reference to pilot status of new and innovative pathways toward teacher certification; removing sunset date. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jo Dossett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1437: Schools; directing the State Department of Education to establish guidelines to administer certain physical fitness test. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1481: Schools; requiring certain schools to provide students in certain grades with certain amount of recess per day. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
Co-sponsors: Chad Caldwell
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SB1594: Teachers; adding requirement for school principal certification. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Brenda Stanley
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1614: Teachers; modifying requirements for adjunct teachers. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
Co-sponsors: Chad Caldwell
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1630: Schools; allowing a school district or charter school to count certain day or number of hours toward certain requirement under certain circumstances. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kristen Thompson
Co-sponsors: Anthony Moore
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1632: Schools; directing career-readiness assessments and assessment-based credentials to be made available to certain students beginning in certain school year. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jerry Alvord
Co-sponsors: Toni Hasenbeck
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1718: Schools; directing the State Department of Education to establish the Oklahoma Principal Leadership Development Program. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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We the OKGOP believe in sunset laws, zero based budgeting and performance audits to justify government programs.
SB1884: School employees; modifying the access statewide professional educators' associations have to school employees; allowing termination of certain membership at any time. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
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SB2045: Schools; requiring certain schools to provide students in certain grades with certain amount of daily recess. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Brenda Stanley
Co-sponsors: Dick Lowe
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HB2197: Higher education; creating the Making College More Affordable Act; prohibitions; research universities; meal plans; effective date; emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-23
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Max Wolfley
Co-sponsors: Kendal Sacchieri Jack Stewart Julie McIntosh
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prohibits state research universities from requiring students to purchase a meal plan as a condition of enrollment or residing in on-campus housing. The floor sub narrows the focus of the bill to just research universities, instead of all institutions of higher education under the state regents. YES but it should have been left to ALL institutions of higher learning.
Free market principles at risk here. This prohibits additional financial burden on students and meals that might or might not be healthy or suitable for students.
SB1494: School district employees; requiring appropriation of certain funding for flexible benefit allowances for school district employees of certain districts. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-23
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lonnie Paxton
Co-sponsors: Kyle Hilbert
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1422: Schools; requiring school district boards of education and charter school governing bodies to adopt certain policy regarding period of prayer and reading. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-17
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jerry Alvord
Co-sponsors: Toni Hasenbeck
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SB1593: Higher education; removing language regarding the promulgation of rules and the presidential search process for the Board of Trustees for Oklahoma State University/Tulsa. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-17
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Todd Gollihare
Co-sponsors: Anthony Moore
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1893: Students; creating the Teacher Shortage Reduction Act; providing criteria for certain graduation recognition; providing criteria for certain education designation. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-17
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
Co-sponsors: Dick Lowe
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Creates the Teacher Shortage Reduction Act, a new initiative to identify high school students who show an early interest in education and help guide them toward becoming certified teachers or working in classroom support roles.βOklahoma schools are short more than 700 teachers this school year,β Standridge said. βThis legislation takes a NO-COST approach to strengthening the teacher pipeline by connecting students who are interested in education with real-world learning opportunities early on, so theyβre better prepared to step into the classroom after graduating college.β
SB1864: Schools; removing minimum salary schedule amounts beginning in certain school year; directing certain personnel to be paid in accordance with certain salary schedule. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-16
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
Co-sponsors: Chris Banning
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1336: Education; creating the Oklahoma Veterans Higher Education Access Act; providing certain waivers; providing for calculation of waiver amounts. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-12
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kristen Thompson
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SB1480: Schools; requiring designation of apprenticeship coordinators at technology center school districts; directing certain collaboration with coordinators. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-12
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1719: Schools; extending prohibition on use of cell phones and personal electronic devices on certain campuses. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-12
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
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Last year this passed as a ONE YEAR PILOT PROGRAM and thereafter would be up to local school districts to decide if they wanted to continue it or modify it. Now you want to take local control away anyway after you said last session after ONE YEAR THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS COULD DECIDE. What is your justification for not being truthful last session regarding this and your justification for taking away local control?
SB1366: State Department of Education; directing the Department to establish the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-11
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
Co-sponsors: Toni Hasenbeck
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SB1429: Schools; allowing public school foundations to expend funds for certain purposes. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-11
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Darcy Jech
Co-sponsors: Carl Newton
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Oklahoma schools already receive substantial funding. Before expanding foundation spending authority, the Legislature should address mismanagement, administrative bloat, and unnecessary expenditures. More money without accountability does not fix broken priorities β it entrenches them.
SB1616: School athletic associations; requiring that certain hearings be subject to the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-11
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Avery Frix
Co-sponsors: Nicole Miller
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1375: Curriculum requirements; requiring students beginning in certain school year to complete certain computer science unit to graduate. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-10
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Brenda Stanley
Co-sponsors: Dell Kerbs
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SB1887: Schools; modifying frequency of training on food allergies, anaphylaxis, epinephrine administration, and concussions. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-10
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Casey Murdock
Co-sponsors: Carl Newton
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1495: Schools; creating the Age-Appropriate Materials Act; prohibiting public school districts and public charter schools from making certain materials available to students. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-09
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jerry Alvord
Co-sponsors: Cody Maynard
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This legislation protects our school age material from obscene material. The provisions of this act are necessary to protect the health, safety, and morals of students in this state.
This legislation restricts the library collection in our public schools:
a. prohibits the possession, acquisition, display, or purchase of print and nonprint materials and multimedia resources that:
(1) contain or depict obscene material, sexual
conduct, sexually explicit content, nudity, or
material that is harmful to minors, and
(2) refers a person, by printed or digital means, to
a website containing or depicting obscene
material, sexual conduct, nudity, or material
that is harmful to minors.
This is much needed legislation to protect children in public schools.
SB1634: Schools; prohibiting the State Department of Education from accepting federal funds provided for certain purpose; requiring review of certain contracts. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-09
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
Co-sponsors: Dana Prieto
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We must stop the expansion of Socialism in our school systems through the implementation of school based health care clinics (SBHCs). Many programs exist for this encroachment - "Whole Child Whole School" (WSCC), "Community Schools", "Multi-Tiered Support for Mental Health", "Mental Health for On-Site Counseling Teams" (MTSS), "Health Integration Program", "Health Partnerships", and "Mobile School Clinic" to name a few.
Health care is not a function of education!
SB1207: Schools; directing the State Department of Education to develop curriculum to address awareness and prevention of domestic violence and human trafficking. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-05
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mark Mann
Co-sponsors: Tammy West
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2003: Definitions and general provisions; requiring certain changing rooms and restrooms to be designated for the exclusive use of the male or female sex. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
Co-sponsors: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB366: Charter schools; removing language requiring a charter school application to be first submitted to certain school district. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hines
Co-sponsors: Rob Hall Chad Caldwell Julie Daniels Shane Jett Jack Stewart Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1190: Schools; requiring public school districts to designate an industry day; providing for certain collaboration. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
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SB1194: Schools; directing the State Board of Career and Technology Education to establish certain pilot program. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
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SB1200: School elections; prohibiting persons engaged in certain activities from being eligible to be a candidate for school district or technology center school district board of education.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kendal Sacchieri
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I support SB 1200 and its goal of preventing financial conflicts of interest on school and technology center boards. The bill takes an important step toward protecting public trust in education governance. To strengthen the bill without changing its intent, I respectfully suggest a few clarifications to better define what qualifies as a disqualifying interest, limit unintended exclusions of community members, and ensure the rule is applied fairly and consistently.
1) Clarify What βInterestβ Means
Example: A retired contractor who owns a small, inactive stake in a construction company that has not worked with a school district in years would not automatically be disqualified.
Why: Without clarification, the term βinterestβ could be read too broadly and exclude people with no real influence or involvement in school contracts.
2) Limit the Scope to Active or Direct Involvement
Example: A person who works for a large company that occasionally issues bonds statewide but has no role in school-related projects or decisions, would not be barred from serving.
Why: This prevents the rule from unintentionally excluding individuals who have no practical ability to influence school board decisions.
3) Provide a Clear Look-Back or Time Boundary
Example: Someone who sold their business years ago or ended involvement before filing for office would be eligible to run.
Why: Without a time boundary, past or long-ended activities could permanently disqualify otherwise qualified candidates.
Who these amendments protect: These amendments protect local voters, school districts, and community members who want ethical governance without unnecessary exclusions. They help ensure the bill targets real conflicts of interest, prevents confusion or uneven enforcement, and keeps school boards open to qualified citizens while maintaining public trust.
SB1201: Education employees; providing for adoption leave; extending amount of paid maternity leave. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mark Mann
Co-sponsors: Emily Gise
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1203: Education employees; providing for paid adoption leave for certain education employees. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mark Mann
Co-sponsors: Emily Gise
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1202: Education employees; providing for paid paternity leave and adoption leave for certain education employees. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mark Mann
Co-sponsors: Emily Gise
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1214: Schools; requiring school district boards of education to provide programs addressing sex trafficking and exploitation prevention and awareness. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
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SB1247: Higher education; removing exception allowing certain students to be eligible for resident tuition and certain other benefits. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
Co-sponsors: George Burns
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SB1261: Higher education; prohibiting certain institutions of higher education from accepting certain donations; prohibiting institutions from keeping certain donor information confidential. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Warren Hamilton
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SB1271: Strong Readers Act; requiring retention of certain third-grade students; directing certain intervention services to be provided to certain students. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
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SB 1271 strengthens reading proficiency requirements for early elementary students and expands reporting on literacy interventions
SB1282: Schools; modifying the Parents' Bill of Rights; requiring written consent for certain instruction. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dana Prieto
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SB1293: State Department of Education; creating the LETRS Training Revolving Fund to provide certain training to certain teachers. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1291: Strong Readers Act; removing language establishing three-year pilot program; increasing number of literacy specialists required. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1298: Student assessments; directing the State Board of Education to issue a request for proposals to select certain alternative assessments. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
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SB1308: Higher education; providing eligibility for resident tuition. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Michael Brooks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1315: Higher education; prohibiting certain individuals from being eligible to enroll in certain institutions of higher education. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
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SB1324: Higher education; repealing language prohibiting certain institutions of higher education from using state funds, property, or resources in certain activities. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Nikki Nice
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1334: Strong Readers Act; modifying number of screening instruments to be approved; modifying criteria for approval. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1340: Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program; increasing income eligibility limits beginning in certain school year. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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The OKGOP platform believes in sunset laws, zero based budgeting and performance audits to justify government programs.
SB1357: Adult education and family literacy matching funds; providing certain matching funds and contingency funding. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1363: Schools; minimum salary schedule for teachers; layered additional compensation for teachers; recognition of college degrees; acceptance of certain teaching experience; notification; limits on credit for certain service; certain salary increases. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1411: Charter schools; adding requirements to charter school application; requiring annual oversight and performance review. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dana Prieto
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1416: Schools; creating the Teaching Honesty, Respect, Integrity, Virtue, and Excellence (THRIVE) Act; requiring development of certain education program. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jerry Alvord
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1490: School district boards of education; directing terms of elected members to begin in July. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lonnie Paxton
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1497: Graduation requirements; modifying requirements for alternate diploma; conforming language. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hines
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1523: Schools; directing the State Department of Education to establish guidelines to administer certain physical fitness test. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dana Prieto
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1615: Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program; providing eligibility for children of certified administrators. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Avery Frix
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We the OKGOP believe in sunset laws, zero based budgeting and performance audits to justify government programs. Last year this was passed for public school TEACHERS' KIDS. Now you want to add CERTIFIED ADMINISTRATORS kids. Where does it end? Where is eligibility provided for everyone else's kids?
SB1631: Higher education; providing for membership of the Oklahoma Free Speech Committee; directing certain information to be provided to students. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Randy Grellner
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1668: Schools; requiring school districts beginning in certain school year to provide instruction in human growth and development to students in certain grades. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Julie Daniels
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SB1671: Schools; directing the State Department of Education to make certain determination; requiring public school districts and charter schools to provide certain firearm instruction. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB1669: Higher education; requiring certain institutions of higher education to publish certain student information on their websites. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Warren Hamilton
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SB1736: Schools; creating the Oklahoma Sexual Education Reform and Parental Rights Protection Act; requiring written consent for a student to participate in certain instruction. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB1720: Schools; providing additional rights under the Parents' Bill of Rights; providing process to submit certain complaint; providing cause of action. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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While this bill is being sold as a broad parental-rights expansion, in reality itβs narrowly tailored toward IEP disputes and special-education enforcement.SB 1720 would expand parentsβ legal rights in public schools by adding protections under the Parentsβ Bill of Rights, establishing a formal complaint process, and creating a right to sue when those rights are violated β a major shift in empowering parents within the education system.
SB 1720 is much more about special education / IEP enforcement than broad, general parental rights. SB 1720 is less about general parental rights and more about IEP enforcement and special-education dispute resolution, despite its broader branding
SB1738: Schools; allowing a school district or charter school to employ or accept as a volunteer one or more chaplains; requiring certain record check. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB1737: Schools; prohibiting public school districts from offering a sex education class or program. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB1739: Schools; prohibiting the embedding of social workers in public school districts and charter schools. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB1768: Schools; directing personal financial literacy education to include instruction in certain area. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kendal Sacchieri
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I support SB 1768 because teaching students practical financial skills is valuable and timely. The bill would be stronger with a few clarifications to ensure classrooms remain focused on financial education, districts keep flexibility, and instruction does not drift into advocacy or confusion. These changes improve clarity and consistency without changing the billβs overall intent to strengthen financial literacy.
1) Clarify Instruction vs. Advocacy
Example: Instruction on how inflation works would explain multiple perspectives and basic mechanics, rather than requiring or favoring a specific viewpoint or book.
Why: This prevents classroom instruction from being perceived as promoting a single political or ideological position instead of teaching students how to think critically.
2) Preserve Local Curriculum Flexibility
Example: A district could choose different age-appropriate materials or examples to teach inflation and monetary policy, as long as students learn the core concepts.
Why: This avoids a one-size-fits-all approach and respects that districts and teachers know what works best for their students.
3) Align the Emergency Clause with the Effective Date
Example: The bill would take effect on the stated future date without using emergency language, unless a clear and immediate need is demonstrated.
Why: This prevents confusion about timing and avoids setting unnecessary precedent for using emergency declarations when the bill already has a scheduled start date.
Who these amendments protect: These amendments protect students by keeping instruction educational rather than ideological, protect teachers by giving them clear boundaries and flexibility, and protect school districts by preventing confusion, controversy, or future expansion beyond the billβs original purpose.
SB1782: Higher education; prohibiting the governing boards of certain institutions of higher education from establishing and maintaining tenure plans after certain date. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Randy Grellner
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SB1781: Schools; creating the Federal Education Deregulation Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding federal education funding. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Randy Grellner
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SB1891: Education; creating the Oklahoma Teacher-Led Curriculum Development Act; directing the State Department of Education to establish certain consortium. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1811: School Safety and Bullying Prevention Act; requiring certain policies relating to discipline and bullying. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB1789: Teachers; creating the Local Teacher Licensure Act; authorizing school district boards of education to recommend teacher licensure or certification. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1868: School curriculum; requiring teachers who present certain instruction on biological evolution to also present instruction on certain concepts. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
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SB1890: School activities; creating the Oklahoma Athletics and Activities Commission; providing for membership; providing duties. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Casey Murdock
Co-sponsors: George Burns
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1897: Student assessments; directing the State Board of Education to amend certain state plan; directing the Board to issue a request for proposals for certain assessments. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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SB1897 advances a workforce-development education model that standardizes students into state-managed pipelines while expanding administrative power and weakening parental authority.
SB1899: Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program; providing eligibility for children of school district certified personnel. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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The OKGOP platform states we believe in sunset laws, zero based budgeting and performance audits to justify government programs.
SB2016: Technology center school districts; directing the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education to take certain actions in its administration of certain federal funds. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1896: Strong Readers Act; requiring retention of certain third-grade students who have not demonstrated certain proficiency and do not qualify for certain exemption. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
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SB1896 advances a workforce-development model that standardizes students into state-defined pipelines, expands administrative control, and sidelines parents under the banner of alignment and outcomes.
SB1888: School athletic associations; adding provisions to be included in written policy; establishing legislative review process for rules. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Casey Murdock
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1968: Higher education; directing the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to adopt certain policy regarding courses taken at technology center school districts. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1971: Charter schools; adding requirements to charter school application; requiring annual oversight and performance review. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kendal Sacchieri
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This provides accountability to charter school sponsors who currently have very minimal responsibilities post school approval. This brings Oklahoma up to the standards set in other states regarding charter school governance. As charter schools continue to expand across our state, accountability and transparency measures like the ones in this bill, which seek to inform and involve the stakeholders-the parents, are vital for the protection of parental rights and representation that should be provided when public dollars are granted. This corrects the 'taxation without representation' we currently have in some charter schools, by providing some form of voice for parents. This bill puts the responsibility of follow up on the sponsor of the charter school to make sure they are not operating independently from the tax payers they serve. As charter school families do not get to elect their board members, stakeholders have next to no representation for their tax dollars. This bill provides a starting place to correct that.
I support SB 1971 because it strengthens accountability and transparency in the charter school system by improving oversight, performance reviews, and sponsor responsibility. The bill would be stronger with a few clarifications to ensure clear limits on sponsor penalties and fair, predictable application of new requirements. These changes improve clarity and consistency without changing the billβs overall intent.
1) Clear Standards Before Sponsor Suspension
Example: If a sponsor has several schools close due to factors outside its controlβsuch as enrollment shifts or serving high-risk student populationsβthe sponsor would receive clear notice of specific deficiencies and an opportunity to correct them before losing authority to approve new schools.
Why: This prevents automatic or arbitrary punishment of sponsors without clear, fixable benchmarks.
2) Reasonable Timing for New Compliance Requirements
Example: New survey, reporting, and review requirements would apply after a defined adjustment period so existing schools and sponsors have time to implement systems without disrupting school operations.
Why: This avoids rushed compliance that could create paperwork errors or unintended technical violations.
3) Limits on Emergency Use
Example: The bill would take effect on a normal timeline unless a true, immediate safety risk to students is identified, rather than applying emergency status to long-term policy changes.
Why: This prevents emergency powers from being used for administrative convenience rather than urgent necessity.
Who these amendments protect: These amendments protect students and families by ensuring stable school oversight, protect charter schools by preventing sudden or unclear penalties, and protect sponsors and taxpayers by preventing overreach, confusion, and unintended expansion of enforcement authority.
SB2006: Higher education; prohibiting certain institutions of higher education from using state funds to provide certain scholarship, grant, aid, or discount to certain students. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
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SB1898: Higher education; directing the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to select certain institutions of higher education to establish Centers for Civic Engagement. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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The OKGOP platform states we believe in sunset laws, zero based budgeting and performance audits to justify government programs.
SB1974: Students; providing eligibility for special education and related services; providing for evaluation and reevaluation; providing for dispute resolution. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1792: School district boards of education; allowing certain instruction; requiring the maintenance of certain records by schools districts. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB1865: Schools; requiring students to complete certain growth and development instruction in order to graduate. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
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SB2008: School athletic associations; adding provision to be included in certain association written policy. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1866: Schools; creating the Oklahoma Sexual Education Reform and Parental Rights Protection Act; requiring written consent for a student to participate in certain instruction. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
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SB1886: Higher education; affording certain rights to students enrolled in certain institutions of higher education. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1895: Schools; requiring public school districts to provide annual notification regarding participation in certain community eligibility provision. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Aaron Reinhardt
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2005: School athletic associations; requiring association written policy to include certain provision. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1800: School employees; requiring certain notification; providing for certain suspension. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
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SB2068: Schools; requiring each public school district to create a library advisory committee for each grade level. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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Each public school district shall create a library advisory committee for each grade level and shall be comprised of: a. a member of the school district board of education, b. a teacher of the applicable grade level, and c. a parent or legal guardian of a student enrolled in the applicable grade level and review currently
available, and approve new, print materials, nonprint materials, multimedia resources, equipment, and supplies.
SB2048: State Travel Reimbursement Act; allowing the Statewide Charter School Board to enter into certain contracts and establish certain accounts. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2051: Higher education; creating the Oklahoma Research Attraction Program; providing eligibility for certain matching grants. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kristen Thompson
Co-sponsors: Anthony Moore
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The OKGOP platform states we believe in sunset laws, zero based budgeting and performance audits to justify government programs.
SB2070: Charter schools; adding requirements to charter school application; requiring annual oversight and performance review. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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SB2047: Education; modifying terms of Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability members; directing certain report to include certain data. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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Data required shall be provided to the Commission without the need for a separate data-sharing agreement with related state agencies and shall be subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act; the confidentiality of individual student records shall be preserved as required by state and federal law .The Commission may contract with an independent third party to receive, process, and report data submitted and may receive and expend federal or private grant funds to carry out its duties. NO! THIS IS 2025 SB224 again!
SB 2047 changes the mechanism, not the mission. Without strict limits on vendors, geography, data volume, retention, and use, it continues the same practice as SB 224 (2025) β selling and sharing childrenβs data under a different label.
SB2050: Higher education; removing language providing resident tuition eligibility for certain students. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
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SB1869: Oklahoma Educational Television Authority; removing certain essentiality of Authority; altering certain powers of the Authority; directing transfer of certain funds. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2026-02-03
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB2247: Special education; requiring State Department of Education develop certain standards; codification; effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-16
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: John Waldron
Co-sponsors: Kelly Hines Ajay Pittman
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB1491: Education; meetings of the State Board of Education; authorizing members to add items to agendas; procedure for adding; emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-15
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ronny Johns
Co-sponsors: Lonnie Paxton Cyndi Munson Melissa Provenzano John Waldron Anthony Moore
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB2418: Teachers; adjunct teachers; State Board of Career and Technology Education to promulgate certain rules; requiring State Department of Education to assist in implementing rules; effective date; emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Scott Fetgatter
Co-sponsors: Avery Frix
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB2702: Special education; special education administrators; training; competency exam; effective date; emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ross Ford
Co-sponsors: Dave Rader
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB1982: Schools; contracts for school materials; electronic textbook and instructional materials; contracts between vendors and schools; damages; definitions; effective date; emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Trish Ranson
Co-sponsors: Mark Mann Jared Deck
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB1603: Schools; requiring age-appropriate human growth and development curriculum to be taught in public schools; guidelines and resources; effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Emily Gise
Co-sponsors: Christi Gillespie Stacy Jo Adams Gabe Woolley
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HB2153: Charter schools; transfers; enrollment preferences; siblings; current students; effective date; emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Rob Hall
Co-sponsors: Brian Guthrie
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB1493: Schools; the Growing Minds, Active Kids Act; requiring school districts to incorporate thirty minutes of daily recess for certain grades.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jacob Rosecrants
Co-sponsors: Brenda Stanley Cynthia Roe Brad Boles Jared Deck Ellyn Hefner Derrick Hildebrant Michelle McCane
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB1938: Schools; directing school districts to conduct an annual fitness assessment.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Danny Sterling
Co-sponsors: Dave Rader
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB1769: Insurance; purchase of benefits by school district employees; enrollment period; effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dell Kerbs
Co-sponsors: Roland Pederson
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteHB1408: Schools; departure of certain students; reporting; requiring State Department of Education to creating a reporting portal; dropout reports; excluding certain students; effective date; emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-04-01
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jim Grego
Co-sponsors: Brenda Stanley
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB346: School personnel; requiring certain letter from previously employed full-time teacher to include certain attestation. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-27
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
Co-sponsors: Neil Hays
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB349: Higher education; requiring certain institutions of higher education to report certain funding from certain foreign sources. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-27
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
Co-sponsors: Neil Hays
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Requires state institutions of higher education and accredited private institutions of higher education to provide a report on the first day of each calendar quarter detailing all contracts, gifts, grants, endowments, awards, or donations that exceeds $50,000.00 from a foreign source. The mesaure directs such reports to be a public record subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
SB800: Schools; requiring certain school personnel to complete certain training. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-26
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Brenda Stanley
Co-sponsors: Bob Culver
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB1004: Commissioners of the Land Office; prohibiting Commissioners from charging certain fees in excess of original bid. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Casey Murdock
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB709: Boards of education; providing special election process to fill vacancy. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
Co-sponsors: Toni Hasenbeck
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB189: Schools; directing funds to be allocated to certain school districts to implement salary increases. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Roland Pederson
Co-sponsors: Dick Lowe
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB58: Higher education; creating the First Responder Recruitment and Retention Act; providing for eligibility; allowing tuition waiver for certain time period. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-24
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Darrell Weaver
Co-sponsors: Brian Hill
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB703: Teachers; allowing a micro-credential to fulfill certain requirements for renewal of standard teaching certificate. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-20
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Aaron Reinhardt
Co-sponsors: Lonnie Paxton
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB795: School choice information; requiring certain information be presented prior to annual enrollment. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-17
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dave Rader
Co-sponsors: Chad Caldwell
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB854: Schools; requiring display of the motto of the United States in certain locations in schools. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-17
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
Co-sponsors: Jim Olsen
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB589: Schools; adding course to fulfill English unit or set of competencies requirement for graduation. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-11
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Aaron Reinhardt
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB185: Higher education; creating the Oklahoma Department of Transportation Educational Assistance Act; providing for eligibility. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-10
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: John Haste
Co-sponsors: Nicole Miller
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB759: Schools; amending the Parents' Bill of Rights. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-05
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dana Prieto
Co-sponsors: Micheal Bergstrom
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB847: Schools; prohibiting a school district or charter school from compelling use of certain pronoun; providing for monitoring of compliance. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-05
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
Co-sponsors: Gabe Woolley
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB851: School employees; modifying the access statewide professional educators' associations have to school employees. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-05
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
Co-sponsors: Kevin West Micheal Bergstrom
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB590: Schools; allowing a school district or charter school to employ or accept as a volunteer one or more chaplains; requiring certain record check. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-05
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dana Prieto
Co-sponsors: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB19: Schools; requiring school districts and charter schools to submit certain list of library materials; providing process for reporting violations; providing penalties. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-05
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Warren Hamilton
Co-sponsors: Micheal Bergstrom
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SB756: Teachers; authorizing certain certification. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB556: Teacher certification; directing the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to have certain authority over teacher certification until certain date. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mark Mann
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB370: School employees; prohibiting school districts from requiring employees to participate in certain activities or distribute certain informational materials. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB548: Firearms; authorizing certain entities to adopt policy regarding the carry of weapons. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB698: Schools; modifying date after which penalties are to be applied for exceeding class size limitations. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB757: School discipline; adding reason for out of school suspension. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Todd Gollihare
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB18: Education; repealing language regarding the Oklahoma School for the Visual and Performing Arts. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Julie Daniels
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB506: School employee payroll deductions; requiring certain authorization for certain dues and political contributions. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB17: School finance; repealing language regarding the School Finance Review Commission. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Julie Daniels
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB919: Commissioners of the Land Office; clarifying terms of agricultural and commercial leases; requiring value of real property leased by public entities to be accounted for in certain investment cap. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Grant Green
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB913: Substance abuse services; making certain school training mandatory; requiring boards of education of public school districts to provide certain personnel with emergency opioid antagonists under specified condition. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kristen Thompson
Co-sponsors: Nicole Miller
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB696: Schools; removing language requiring school transportation vehicles of certain capacity to have certain words painted on them. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB856: Firearms; authorizing carry of a concealed handgun on public school property by certain personnel. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB371: Schools; directing school district boards of education to adopt policies prohibiting students from accessing certain social network or social media platforms on certain computers and devices. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB849: Student transfers; transfer of students who are dependent children of certain military. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB142: School personnel compensation; modifying minimum salary schedule. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB408: Higher education; prohibiting certain institutions from taking certain actions due to a student's pregnancy. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mary Boren
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB7: Higher education; creating the Oklahoma Teacher Recruitment Academy; providing eligibility. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB192: State Aid; directing State Aid to be calculated based on the average daily membership of a district's first nine weeks beginning in certain school year; providing for transitional grants. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB867: Schools; annual reports for the Oklahoma School Testing Program; requiring certain reports. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB314: Education employees; clarifying that certain employees of institutions of higher education receive certain paid parental leave. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mary Boren
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB845: Higher education; directing institution of higher education governing boards to ensure certain actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion do not occur. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB242: Higher education; creating the Veterans Entering Teaching (VET) Act to provide certain tuition and fee assistance. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB507: Schools; directing school districts to submit certain reports regarding federal funding. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jack Stewart
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB591: Education; creating the Free to Speak Act; prohibiting public school and certain institution of higher learning employees from addressing certain students in certain manner. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB790: Schools; requiring the State Board of Education to develop certain programs. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Jack Stewart
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB788: Students; creating the Students' Bill of Rights; affording certain rights to students enrolled in public school districts or public charter schools. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB267: Higher education; establishing the School of American Civic Thought and Leadership at the University of Oklahoma; providing purpose; making an appropriation. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Julie Daniels
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB454: Schools; annual reports for the Oklahoma School Testing Program; modifying certain grade and descriptions of grades; removing certain language; requiring certain measures to improve certain services. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Mary Boren
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB373: Education; creating the Research and Education Protection Act of 2025. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB749: Higher education; creating the Oklahoma Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dave Rader
Co-sponsors: Mark Tedford
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB702: Schools; modifying the Health Education Act; modifying topics to be included in health education; providing for review and approval of curricula and materials. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB412: School district boards of education; removing requirement to complete certain hours of instruction. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB376: Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program; removing prior public school enrollment requirement. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Casey Murdock
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB246: Teachers; allowing public school districts and charter schools to provide certain designations to certified classroom teachers; creating the Distinguished Educator Allotments Revolving Fund. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB710: Education; renaming the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability and the Office of Educational Quality and Accountability; modifying commission member terms. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Ally Seifried
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB793: Education; requiring certain display. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB243: Schools; directing the State Department of Education to establish the School Innovation Grant Program; providing application process. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB846: Higher education; creating the Stop DEI Act; prohibiting an institution of higher education from requiring, soliciting, or incentivizing participation in certain practices or content. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB848: Education funding; creating the Oklahoma Independent Education Act; requiring development of plan to phase out acceptance and use of certain federal funds. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: David Bullard
Co-sponsors: Kevin West
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB413: Schools; creating the Oklahoma Sexual Education Reform and Parental Rights Protection Act; requiring written consent for a student to participate in certain instruction. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB588: Schools; requiring certain school district or technology center school to provide certain attestation regarding individual being considered for employment. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Kendal Sacchieri
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This will help eliminate the "passing of trash" between districts. Disclosures of this kind regarding minors should be the expectations when seeking employment in a environment with minors.
SB195: Apprenticeships, Internships and Mentorships (AIM) Act of 2016; directing the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to obtain certain insurance coverage. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lonnie Paxton
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB28: Schools; directing school districts to provide meals at no cost to certain students in certain school years. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Carri Hicks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB411: School employees; requiring notification from law enforcement upon arrest or investigation of school employee for certain offenses. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Shane Jett
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB695: Schools; providing procedures relating to graduation rates. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB514: Alternative education; directing the statewide system of alternative education to include designated charter schools and virtual charter schools. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Micheal Bergstrom
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB558: Firearms; modifying scope of allowable carry. Effective date.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB798: State Board of Education; authorizing certain action regarding licensure. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Aaron Reinhardt
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB704: Schools; directing certain online learning platform to be available to all students in the state. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Pugh
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB233: Higher education; providing certain concurrent enrollment tuition waiver to juniors and seniors who declare intention to teach. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB866: Firearms; authorizing carry of a concealed handgun on public school property by certain personnel. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Lisa Standridge
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB700: School athletics; directing the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health to develop certain guidelines regarding exertional heat-related illness. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Dave Rader
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB406: Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program; directing certain designated individuals to annually evaluate students based on certain eligibility. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Michael Brooks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB219: Schools; requiring certain schools to make menstrual products available in certain restrooms. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Nikki Nice
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB247: Students; creating the Fund Students, Not Systems Act; providing for calculation of education savings account amount. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Dusty Deevers
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB587: Schools; requiring school disricts to provide instruction in human growth and development to students in certain grades. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Jerry Alvord
Co-sponsors: Emily Gise
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB407: Federal funds; directing public school districts that receive certain federal funds to use certain portion to provide professional development to certain teachers. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Michael Brooks
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB486: Schools; allowing a school district board of education to contract with a chaplain to perform school counselor duties. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Shane Jett
Co-sponsors: Dana Prieto
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB954: Education; prohibiting certain exclusions, denials, and discrimination. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
Pending: π Education π Not Scheduled
Author: Julie Daniels
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB850: School curriculum; directing certain history component to include certain information about the founding fathers. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: David Bullard
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB348: Schools; directing responsibility for content of all instructional materials; requiring adoption of policy for objections to use of specific materials. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Micheal Bergstrom
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB374: Schools; directing the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to make certain school accreditation determinations until certain date. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Mark Mann
π Details π View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB509: Higher education; repealing creation of the board of trustees for the McCurtain County Higher Education Program. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action: None
Date: 2025-02-04
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Author: Julie Daniels
π Details π View Bill on Legislature Website
I support SB 1199 because it strengthens transparency and public trust by tightening conflict-of-interest rules for school and technology center boards. To make the bill clearer and fairer in practice, it needs a few narrow clarificationsβspecifically around how βinterestβ is measured, how family employment is handled when no real control or profit exists, and when immediate implementation is truly necessary. These changes would improve consistency and prevent overreach without changing the billβs intent.
1) Clarify What Counts as a Meaningful Financial Interest
Example: A board memberβs adult child works hourly at a large regional company that happens to contract with the district, but the family has no ownership, control, or influence over pricing or decisions. This situation would be clearly distinguished from a family-owned business that benefits directly from the contract.
Why: Without clearer boundaries, routine employment relationships could be treated the same as true financial conflicts, leading to confusion and unnecessary disqualifications.
2) Add a Practical Safeguard for βOnly Local Providerβ Situations
Example: In a rural area where only one supplier exists within a reasonable distance, the board could proceed if the relationship is fully disclosed, the interested member does not vote, and the reason for using that provider is clearly recorded.
Why: Rural districts often have limited options, and without clear safeguards this provision could either be abused or avoided altogether due to uncertainty.
3) Narrow the Emergency Effective Date
Example: Instead of applying immediately to all situations, the bill would take effect right away only for new contracts, while allowing a short transition period for existing arrangements to be reviewed and disclosed.
Why: Immediate implementation without transition can unintentionally disrupt ongoing operations that were lawful and transparent when entered into.
Who these amendments protect: These amendments protect students, taxpayers, and school districts by ensuring conflicts are addressed consistently and fairly, not arbitrarily. They protect board members from accidental violations, help rural districts continue operating effectively, and prevent the rules from expanding beyond their purpose while still preserving transparency and public trust.