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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher education; prohibiting certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Effective date. Emergency."
+description: "Higher education; prohibiting certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Effective date. Emergency."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
+legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 796"
+citation: "Oklahoma SB 796 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["CrosswhiteHader", "Pugh"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1deec025-dcf2-47c0-983a-803d48fb8e3c"
+source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB796&session=2600"
+source_hash: "f094043be825d5a2eb3bb808e69517d7037e072e953d39432c279a665ad90355"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ok"]
+---
+
+# Oklahoma SB 796 (2026) — Higher education; prohibiting certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Effective date. Emergency.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/SB/SB796 INT.PDF)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB796 ENGR.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB796 ENR.PDF)
+4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB796 HFLR.PDF)
+5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB796 SFLR.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Emergency — **76–17** (pass) · lower
+- Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass — **4–2** (pass) · lower
+- Education — **7–3** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **77–18** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **39–8** (pass) · upper
+- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **7–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- CrosswhiteHader — primary (person)
+- Pugh — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Authored by Senator Pugh
+- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-06** Placed on General Order
+- **2025-03-17** Coauthored by Representative CrosswhiteHader (principal House author)
+- **2025-03-27** General Order, Considered
+- **2025-03-27** Coauthored by Senator Bullard
+- **2025-03-27** Coauthored by Senator Hines
+- **2025-03-27** Coauthored by Senator Jett
+- **2025-03-27** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 8 `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Referred for engrossment
+- **2025-03-31** Engrossed to House `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Referred to Postsecondary Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Postsecondary Education `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Coauthored by Representative(s) Wilk
+- **2025-04-08** Coauthored by Senator(s) Hamilton
+- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
+- **2025-05-06** General Order
+- **2025-05-06** Coauthored by Representative(s) Maynard, Adams, West (Kevin), Caldwell (Chad)
+- **2025-05-06** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 77 Nays: 18; Ayes: 76 Nays: 17 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-05-06** Referred for enrollment
+- **2025-05-06** Coauthored by Representative Miller
+- **2025-05-07** Enrolled, to House
+- **2025-05-07** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-05-07** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by Governor 05/10/2025 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1deec025-dcf2-47c0-983a-803d48fb8e3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).
+