---
type: "Bill"
title: "School employees; allowing a district board of education to approve certain leave of absence for certain purpose."
description: "School employees; allowing a district board of education to approve certain leave of absence for certain purpose."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1579"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1579 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hilbert", "Paxton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28860d02-6f22-448d-9b30-ea0e90812eaf"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1579&session=2200"
source_hash: "20d4b08846474c8ec45f7eb5e5daadb06e010b9e1a0d7446fcd7b7193add6218"
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 1579 (2022) — School employees; allowing a district board of education to approve certain leave of absence for certain purpose.

## 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/SB1579 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB1579 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB1579 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB1579 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB1579 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Hilbert — primary (person)
- Paxton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Authored by Senator Paxton
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Coauthored by Representative Hilbert (principal House author)
- **2022-03-07** General Order, Considered
- **2022-03-07** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 9 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-03-08** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2022-03-08** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-28** Second Reading referred to Common Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** CR; Do Pass Common Education Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-26** General Order
- **2022-04-26** Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 53 Nays: 37; Ayes: 53 Nays: 37 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-26** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-26** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-04-27** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-04-27** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-27** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-29** Approved by Governor 04/29/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28860d02-6f22-448d-9b30-ea0e90812eaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).