---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education; authorizing the approval of functional exceptions; expanding classes and programs offered to the people of Muskogee. Effective date."
description: "Higher education; authorizing the approval of functional exceptions; expanding classes and programs offered to the people of Muskogee. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 701"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 701 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hasenbeck", "Haste"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d6648ff-08ba-4df1-aa90-aaf4542348d7"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB701&session=2600"
source_hash: "2175bca0bd5dbf96f35acf65241d9b823d3d0f5ace799191172fc75f9cb24da1"
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 701 (2026) — Higher education; authorizing the approval of functional exceptions; expanding classes and programs offered to the people of Muskogee. Effective date.

## 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/SB701 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by HASENBECK** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB701 FA1 HASENBECKTO-AQH.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB701 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB701 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB701 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB701 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB701 SFLR.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB701 HCS.PDF)
9. **Policy Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB701 POLREC.PDF)
10. **Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB701 POLPCS1 TONI HASENBECK-AQH.PDF)

## Votes

- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **51–43** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **29–15** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **43–1** (pass) · upper
- Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Education — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hasenbeck — primary (person)
- Haste — 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 Haste
- **2025-02-03** Coauthored by Senator Gillespie
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Coauthored by Senator McIntosh
- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-03** Coauthored by Representative Hasenbeck (principal House author)
- **2025-03-10** Coauthored by Representative Marti
- **2025-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-11** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-11** Remove as coauthor Senator McIntosh
- **2025-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Postsecondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Postsecondary Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-06** General Order
- **2025-05-06** Coauthored by Representative(s) Woolley, Banning, Ford
- **2025-05-06** Amended by floor substitute
- **2025-05-06** Emergency removed
- **2025-05-06** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 51 Nays: 43 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-07** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-07** HAs read
- **2025-05-21** Coauthored by Representative Chapman
- **2025-05-21** HAs adopted
- **2025-05-21** Measure passed: Ayes: 29 Nays: 16 `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-22** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-22** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-22** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Approved by Governor 05/27/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d6648ff-08ba-4df1-aa90-aaf4542348d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).