---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education; prohibiting certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Higher education; prohibiting certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 796"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 796 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["CrosswhiteHader", "Pugh"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1deec025-dcf2-47c0-983a-803d48fb8e3c"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB796&session=2600"
source_hash: "f094043be825d5a2eb3bb808e69517d7037e072e953d39432c279a665ad90355"
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 796 (2026) — Higher education; prohibiting certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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/SB796 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB796 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB796 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB796 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB796 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Emergency — **76–17** (pass) · lower
- Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass — **4–2** (pass) · lower
- Education — **7–3** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **77–18** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–8** (pass) · upper
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **7–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- CrosswhiteHader — 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 `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-17** Coauthored by Representative CrosswhiteHader (principal House author)
- **2025-03-27** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-27** Coauthored by Senator Bullard
- **2025-03-27** Coauthored by Senator Hines
- **2025-03-27** Coauthored by Senator Jett
- **2025-03-27** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 8 `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 Postsecondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Postsecondary Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Coauthored by Representative(s) Wilk
- **2025-04-08** Coauthored by Senator(s) Hamilton
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-06** General Order
- **2025-05-06** Coauthored by Representative(s) Maynard, Adams, West (Kevin), Caldwell (Chad)
- **2025-05-06** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 77 Nays: 18; Ayes: 76 Nays: 17 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-06** Coauthored by Representative Miller
- **2025-05-07** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-07** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-07** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13** Approved by Governor 05/10/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1deec025-dcf2-47c0-983a-803d48fb8e3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).