---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; requiring public schools to offer certain computer science courses or instruction beginning in certain school year. Effective date."
description: "Schools; requiring public schools to offer certain computer science courses or instruction beginning in certain school year. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 252"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 252 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baker", "Stanley"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7aef7d96-3aaf-44eb-a4a5-6c5e11846055"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB252&session=2100"
source_hash: "e9f1a3d15a0839c363000caa328be231fd97e912d07a5245ef9d9db87542e2b7"
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 252 (2021) — Schools; requiring public schools to offer certain computer science courses or instruction beginning in certain school year. Effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 INT/SB/SB252 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by BAKER (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB252 FA1 BAKERRH-EK(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB252 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB252 PCS.PDF)
5. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB252 ENGR.PDF)
6. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB252 ENR.PDF)
7. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB252 HFLR.PDF)
8. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB252 SFLR.PDF)
9. **SB252 (3-04-21) (STANLEY) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB252 (3-04-21) (STANLEY) RT FA1.PDF)
10. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB252 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Baker — primary (person)
- Stanley — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-02-01** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Authored by Senator Stanley
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-02** Title stricken
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Coauthored by Representative Baker (principal House author)
- **2021-03-03** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09** General Order, Amended
- **2021-03-09** Title restored
- **2021-03-09** Measure passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-10** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-10** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to Common Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** CR; Do Pass Common Education Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-21** General Order
- **2021-04-21** House Rule suspended
- **2021-04-21** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-21** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-04-22** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2021-04-22** HAs read
- **2021-04-27** HAs adopted
- **2021-04-27** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-04-28** Enrolled, to House
- **2021-04-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-04-28** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-03** Approved by Governor 05/03/2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7aef7d96-3aaf-44eb-a4a5-6c5e11846055`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).