---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teacher retirement; modifying requirement for nonclassified optional personnel to join system; specifying procedures to join or opt out of System; specifying certain required contributions be made by certain employees and employers. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Teacher retirement; modifying requirement for nonclassified optional personnel to join system; specifying procedures to join or opt out of System; specifying certain required contributions be made by certain employees and employers. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 683"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 683 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kidd", "Lepak"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7f96714-57f2-4dcb-a685-537f9e24dde5"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB683&session=2100"
source_hash: "cfba64a62dd0c57c2d0f1741876c786aeadc94b0e6338b47712e6fc81cc46c06"
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 683 (2021) — Teacher retirement; modifying requirement for nonclassified optional personnel to join system; specifying procedures to join or opt out of System; specifying certain required contributions be made by certain employees and employers. Effective date. Emergency.

## 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/SB683 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by LEPAK (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB683 FA1 LEPAKMA-MAH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB683 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB683 PCS.PDF)
5. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB683 ENGR.PDF)
6. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB683 ENR.PDF)
7. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB683 HFLR.PDF)
8. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB683 SFLR.PDF)
9. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB683 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Kidd — primary (person)
- Lepak — 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 Kidd
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-24** Coauthored by Representative McBride (principal House author)
- **2021-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2021-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-15** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-15** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to Banking, Financial Services and Pensions `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** CR; Do Pass Banking, Financial Services and Pensions Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-29** Remove Representative McBride as principal House author and substitute with Representative Lepak
- **2021-04-13** General Order
- **2021-04-13** Coauthored by Representative(s) McBride
- **2021-04-13** House Rule suspended
- **2021-04-13** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-13** Emergency added
- **2021-04-13** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 97 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-04-14** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2021-04-14** HAs read
- **2021-04-29** HAs adopted
- **2021-04-29** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-05-03** Enrolled, to House
- **2021-05-03** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-05-03** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-07** Approved by Governor 05/07/2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7f96714-57f2-4dcb-a685-537f9e24dde5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).