---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charter schools; creating the Statewide Charter School Board; providing for succession to certain contracts. Effective date."
description: "Charter schools; creating the Statewide Charter School Board; providing for succession to certain contracts. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 516"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 516 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Echols", "Pugh"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 38
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c063935-3fb7-4aba-8950-f36ff586cc50"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB516&session=2300"
source_hash: "e287405a73b1637d91fceed8bed1c404447593defa76eb86aac0a1661da366a5"
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 516 (2023) — Charter schools; creating the Statewide Charter School Board; providing for succession to certain contracts. 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB516 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by ECHOLS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB516 FA1 ECHOLSJO-EK.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB516 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB516 PCS.PDF)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB516 CS.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB516 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB516 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB516 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB516 SFLR.PDF)
10. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB516 CCS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Echols — primary (person)
- Pugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Authored by Senator Pugh
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Coauthored by Representative Echols (principal House author)
- **2023-02-27** Coauthored by Senator Brooks
- **2023-03-22** General Order, Considered
- **2023-03-22** Measure passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2023-03-22** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-23** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-03-23** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Common Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** CR; Do Pass, as amended, Common Education Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Title stricken
- **2023-04-11** Enacting clause stricken
- **2023-04-27** General Order
- **2023-04-27** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-27** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 60 Nays: 19 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-05-01** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** HAs read
- **2023-05-15** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2023-05-15** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Common Education
- **2023-05-17** SCs named Pugh, Treat, Pemberton, Thompson (Kristen), Boren
- **2023-05-23** CCR read
- **2023-05-23** Title restored
- **2023-05-23** Enacting clause restored
- **2023-05-25** CCR adopted
- **2023-05-25** Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 38 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2023-05-25** CCR submitted
- **2023-05-25** CCR adopted
- **2023-05-25** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 68 Nays: 27 `passage`
- **2023-05-25** To Senate
- **2023-05-25** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-05-26** Enrolled, to House
- **2023-05-26** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-05-26** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Approved by Governor 06/05/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c063935-3fb7-4aba-8950-f36ff586cc50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).