---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reading Sufficiency Act; renaming to Strong Readers Act; assessments; screening. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Reading Sufficiency Act; renaming to Strong Readers Act; assessments; screening. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 362"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 362 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baker", "Pugh"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2024-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41d96a6e-ca0a-4843-a50e-0fd9973e56b8"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB362&session=2400"
source_hash: "5f8a1b54c3b645050118b056163a05ebd6cdc0b2ec8477d71a671895e40fdf44"
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 362 (2024) — Reading Sufficiency Act; renaming to Strong Readers Act; assessments; screening. 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/SB362 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by BAKER (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB362 FA1 BAKERRH-EK(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB362 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB362 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB362 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB362 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB362 SFLR.PDF)
8. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB362 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **78–3** (pass) · lower
- Common Education Committee: Do Pass — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **85–5** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- Committee On Education — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Baker — 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`
- **2023-02-20** Coauthored by Representative Baker (principal House author)
- **2023-02-28** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07** General Order, Considered
- **2023-03-07** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-08** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-03-08** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Common Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** CR; Do Pass Common Education Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-25** House Rule suspended
- **2024-04-25** General Order
- **2024-04-25** Amended by floor substitute
- **2024-04-25** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 78 Nays: 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-04-29** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2024-04-29** HAs read
- **2024-05-07** Coauthored by Representative Davis
- **2024-05-20** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2024-05-20** SCs named Pugh, Seifried, Thompson (Kristen), Rader, Hicks
- **2024-05-21** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Common Education
- **2024-05-22** CCR read
- **2024-05-29** CCR adopted
- **2024-05-29** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2024-05-29** Coauthored by Senator Jett
- **2024-05-29** CCR submitted
- **2024-05-30** CCR adopted
- **2024-05-30** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2024-05-30** To Senate
- **2024-05-30** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-05-30** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-05-30** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-14** Approved by Governor 06/14/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41d96a6e-ca0a-4843-a50e-0fd9973e56b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).