---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; extending age for high school completion. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Schools; extending age for high school completion. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 745"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 745 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gillespie", "Moore"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67fe1c99-9a0c-49b7-9fdf-4fa69d888d3b"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB745&session=2600"
source_hash: "056a6f4da3d875c0dbc3ca8e23e34c951ba46eed61132b49826f1079cb421088"
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 745 (2026) — Schools; extending age for high school completion. 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/SB745 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB745 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB745 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB745 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB745 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB745 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB745 HCS.PDF)
8. **Policy Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB745 POLREC.PDF)
9. **Proposed Policy Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB745 POLAMD1 ANTHONY MOORE-SW.PDF)
10. **Proposed Policy Committee Recommendation - - Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB745 POLREC-AMD1 ANTHONY MOORE-MAH.PDF)
11. **SB745 (3-10-25) (GILLESPIE) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB745 (3-10-25) (GILLESPIE) FA1.PDF)
12. **SB745 (3-10-25) (GILLESPIE) WDFA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB745 (3-10-25) (GILLESPIE) WDFA1.PDF)

## Votes

- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **42–5** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **40–2** (pass) · upper
- Education — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gillespie — primary (person)
- Moore — 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 Gillespie
- **2025-02-03** Coauthored by Representative Moore (principal House author)
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-27** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-27** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-31** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-31** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Common Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Common Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-23** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-23** Coauthored by Representative(s) West (Tammy)
- **2025-05-01** General Order
- **2025-05-01** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 80 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-05** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-05** HAs read
- **2025-05-14** HAs adopted
- **2025-05-14** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-15** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-15** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-15** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-22** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/22/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67fe1c99-9a0c-49b7-9fdf-4fa69d888d3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).