---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Rural Jobs Act; cap on capital investment tax credits; authorizing and limiting additional participation in program under certain conditions."
description: "Oklahoma Rural Jobs Act; cap on capital investment tax credits; authorizing and limiting additional participation in program under certain conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 2894"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2894 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Trey)", "Howard"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2026-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b453d3b-9c3d-41b8-8936-389c1d4665cc"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2894&session=2600"
source_hash: "fd816a97a67caf3f07df6a9dda3c9b9db06f8c5d927d9f73ca271ab9d252a34b"
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 HB 2894 (2026) — Oklahoma Rural Jobs Act; cap on capital investment tax credits; authorizing and limiting additional participation in program under certain conditions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/hB/HB2894 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/HB2894 SAHB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB2894 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB2894 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB2894 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB2894 SFLR.PDF)
7. **HB2894 (4-15-26) (HOWARD) FS FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB2894 (4-15-26) (HOWARD) FS FA1.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB2894 CS.PDF)
9. **Sub Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB2894 SUBREC.PDF)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **30–2** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **63–31** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **34–10** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **59–33** (pass) · lower
- Appropriations And Budget Finance Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Trey) — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Authored by Representative Townley
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Finance Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Finance Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** Authored by Senator Thompson (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-26** General Order
- **2025-03-26** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 63 Nays: 31 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-27** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-27** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism Committee then to Revenue and Taxation Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported Do Pass Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Referred to Revenue and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14** Reported Do Pass Revenue and Taxation committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on General Order
- **2026-04-02** Remove as author Senator Thompson; authored by Senator Howard
- **2026-04-07** remove as principal author Representative Townley and substitute with Representative Caldwell (Trey)
- **2026-04-07** Coauthored by Representative Townley
- **2026-04-28** General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
- **2026-04-28** Measure passed: Ayes: 34 Nays: 10 `passage`
- **2026-04-28** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-04-28** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-04-28** SA's received
- **2026-05-06** SA's read, adopted
- **2026-05-06** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 59 Nays: 33 `passage`
- **2026-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-06** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2026-05-06** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2026-05-06** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-13** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/13/2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b453d3b-9c3d-41b8-8936-389c1d4665cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).