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2026 Regular Session

HB3708

Education; Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act; adding grants; definition of a scholarship-granting organization; defining capital improvement grant; information to be submitted to Tax Commission; effective date; emergency.

Current disposition
Pending: Senate Education
Last status date
April 14, 2026
Last status update
Coauthored by Senator Pederson
Pending committee
Education
Author
Chad Caldwell
Co-sponsors
Ally SeifriedRoland Pederson

Legislative progress

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Introduced in House February 2, 2026 House committee reassignment February 9, 2026 House committee substitute February 16, 2026 House committee substitute February 25, 2026 House floor substitute March 24, 2026 House passed March 24, 2026 Sent to Senate March 25, 2026 Introduced in Senate March 25, 2026
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Partner positions

Dislikes

Moms For Liberty Oklahoma

HB 3708 expands school choice through tax-credit scholarships, but it also expands data collection requirements and uses tax incentives to pressure (“bribe”) participation rather than allowing voluntary, arms-length charitable giving. While increased choice can benefit families, the bill ties that expansion to greater reporting to the state and a funding model that leverages tax policy to steer behavior, raising concerns about privacy, transparency, and government influence over private education decisions. Bottom line: HB 3708 advances school choice, but does so by trading privacy and independence for incentives.

Recorded floor votes

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

February 16, 2026 · House

House: Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

7 yea–3 nay

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February 24, 2026 · House

House: Appropriations and Budget Committee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

21 yea–7 nay

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March 24, 2026 · House

House: THIRD READING

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

74 yea–24 nay · 1 absent

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Committee referrals

February 9, 2026 · House

Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee

February 3, 2026 · House

Rules

Instrument history

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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. Senate Coauthored by Senator Pederson
  2. Senate Second Reading referred to Education
  3. Senate First Reading
  4. House Engrossed, signed, to Senate
  5. House Referred for engrossment
  6. House Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 74 Nays: 24 View roll call
  7. House Amended by floor substitute
  8. House General Order
  9. House Emergency added
  10. House Authored by Senator Seifried (principal Senate author)
  11. House CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee
  12. House Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee View roll call
  13. House Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
  14. House Referred to Appropriations and Budget
  15. House Withdrawn from Rules Committee
  16. House Second Reading referred to Rules
  17. House Authored by Representative Caldwell (Chad)
  18. House First Reading
Source provenance
LegiScan bill ID
2082451
LegiScan session ID
2219
Source file
var/states/oklahoma/source/legiscan/2219-befa0395515d/bill/HB3708.json
Package observed
2026-07-18T22:26:27+00:00