---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers; establishing the Grow Your Own Educator Program; providing for grant application process. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Teachers; establishing the Grow Your Own Educator Program; providing for grant application process. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 235"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 235 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerbs", "Pugh"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 43
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c24b242d-2970-4fa4-8044-5893cb48a7c3"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB235&session=2600"
source_hash: "d38213a4a2cdae45264770b2c9e7a1517b70ec0b93eda25bdc4c9c97978cc6b4"
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 235 (2026) — Teachers; establishing the Grow Your Own Educator Program; providing for grant application process. Effective date. Emergency.

## 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/SB/SB235 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB235 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB235 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB235 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB235 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB235 SFLR.PDF)
7. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB235 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **41–6** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **77–10** (pass) · lower
- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended, Strike The Enacting Clause — **27–0** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **79–13** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **36–10** (pass) · upper
- Education — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kerbs — primary (person)
- Pugh — 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 Senator Pugh
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Title stricken
- **2025-02-19** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-18** Coauthored by Representative Kerbs (principal House author)
- **2025-03-25** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-25** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 6 `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-26** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-26** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-17** CR; Do Pass, as amended, Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-17** Enacting clause stricken
- **2025-04-29** General Order
- **2025-04-29** Coauthored by Representative(s) Deck
- **2025-04-29** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 77 Nays: 10 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-04-30** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-30** HAs read
- **2025-05-14** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2025-05-14** SCs named GCCA
- **2025-05-15** Conference granted, naming GCCA
- **2025-05-27** CCR read, GCCA
- **2025-05-27** Title restored
- **2025-05-27** Enacting clause restored
- **2025-05-28** CCR adopted, GCCA
- **2025-05-28** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 36 Nays: 10 `passage`
- **2025-05-28** CCR submitted
- **2025-05-28** CCR adopted
- **2025-05-28** Coauthored by Representative(s) Pogemiller
- **2025-05-28** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 13 `passage`
- **2025-05-28** To Senate
- **2025-05-28** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-28** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Approved by Governor 06/10/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c24b242d-2970-4fa4-8044-5893cb48a7c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).