---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; allowing a school district board of education to enter into an agreement with a church for use of a church building or property. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Schools; allowing a school district board of education to enter into an agreement with a church for use of a church building or property. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1985"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1985 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jett", "West (Kevin)"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c416c1c-b0a9-4768-8e82-694ae8a72a0c"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1985&session=2400"
source_hash: "72682de7ebda407612cd3bc370db6cca2359d36e0bce0f7aee9254335277ba3f"
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 1985 (2024) — Schools; allowing a school district board of education to enter into an agreement with a church for use of a church building or property. 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB1985 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1985 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1985 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1985 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB1985 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Education — **10–2** (pass) · upper
- Emergency — **36–6** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **73–21** (pass) · lower
- Common Education Committee: Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jett — primary (person)
- West (Kevin) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-05** Authored by Senator Jett
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-11** Coauthored by Representative West (Kevin) (principal House author)
- **2024-03-14** General Order, Considered
- **2024-03-14** Measure passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 6 `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Emergency passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 6
- **2024-03-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-03-18** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2024-03-18** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Second Reading referred to Common Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** CR; Do Pass Common Education Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-16** General Order
- **2024-04-16** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 73 Nays: 21 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-16** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-04-17** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-04-17** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-17** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-23** Approved by Governor 04/22/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c416c1c-b0a9-4768-8e82-694ae8a72a0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).