---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teacher preparation; establishment of TeachForwardOK; allowing Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to select more than one applicant under certain circumstances. Emergency."
description: "Teacher preparation; establishment of TeachForwardOK; allowing Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to select more than one applicant under certain circumstances. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 710"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 710 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "Seifried"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2026-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04a1e6a9-3643-4276-9981-dd8f951740dd"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB710&session=2600"
source_hash: "0bcfcc2b7d7eb205befbb23c422c322097fe43377448e339b2d6bd1290e8bdbc"
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 710 (2026) — Teacher preparation; establishment of TeachForwardOK; allowing Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to select more than one applicant under certain circumstances. 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/SB710 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB710 PCS.PDF)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB710 CS.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB710 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB710 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB710 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB710 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Education — **8–2** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Common Education Committee: Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- Seifried — 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 Seifried
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-03** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-03** Emergency added
- **2026-03-05** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-10** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad) (principal House author)
- **2026-03-16** General Order, Considered
- **2026-03-16** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 47 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-17** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-17** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to Common Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Common Education `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-13** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-06** General Order
- **2026-05-06** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 92 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-06** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-06** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-13** Approved by Governor 05/12/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04a1e6a9-3643-4276-9981-dd8f951740dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).