← All legislation

2026 Regular Session

HB3701

Higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; review; low-producing programs; emergency.

Current disposition
Signed by Governor
Last status date
May 6, 2026
Last status update
Approved by Governor 05/05/2026
Author
Chad Caldwell
Co-sponsors
Ally Seifried

Legislative progress

i

This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.

Introduced in House February 2, 2026 House committee reassignment February 10, 2026 House committee substitute February 17, 2026 House committee substitute February 26, 2026 House passed March 10, 2026 Sent to Senate March 11, 2026 Introduced in Senate March 11, 2026 Senate committee passed April 21, 2026 Senate passed April 29, 2026 Sent to House April 29, 2026 Enrolled April 29, 2026 Enrolled April 30, 2026 Sent to Governor April 30, 2026 Governor approved May 6, 2026
Open official bill pageLatest bill text

Recorded floor votes

5 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.

February 17, 2026 · House

House: Postsecondary Education Committee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

6 yea–2 nay

View roll call

February 25, 2026 · House

House: Education Oversight Committee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

8 yea–1 nay

View roll call

March 10, 2026 · House

House: THIRD READING

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

81 yea–13 nay · 5 absent

View roll call

April 21, 2026 · Senate

Senate: Education Committee: DO PASS

Passed

10 yea–1 nay

View roll call

April 29, 2026 · Senate

Senate: THIRD READING

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

37 yea–7 nay · 4 absent

View roll call

Committee referrals

February 3, 2026 · House

Rules

Instrument history

i

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

  1. House Approved by Governor 05/05/2026
  2. House Sent to Governor
  3. Senate Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
  4. House Enrolled, signed, to Senate
  5. House Referred for enrollment
  6. Senate Engrossed measure signed, returned to House
  7. Senate Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 7 View roll call
  8. Senate General Order, Considered
  9. Senate Placed on General Order
  10. Senate Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed View roll call
  11. Senate Second Reading referred to Education
  12. Senate First Reading
  13. House Engrossed, signed, to Senate
  14. House Referred for engrossment
  15. House Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 81 Nays: 13 View roll call
  16. House General Order
  17. House CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee
  18. House Emergency added
  19. House Authored by Senator Seifried (principal Senate author)
  20. House Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Postsecondary Education View roll call
  21. House Referred to Postsecondary Education
  22. House Referred to Education Oversight
  23. House Withdrawn from Rules Committee
  24. House Second Reading referred to Rules
  25. House Authored by Representative Caldwell (Chad)
  26. House First Reading
Source provenance
LegiScan bill ID
2080791
LegiScan session ID
2219
Source file
var/states/oklahoma/source/legiscan/2219-befa0395515d/bill/HB3701.json
Package observed
2026-07-18T22:26:27+00:00