---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma; membership; modifying eligibility for certain retired members; effective date."
description: "Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma; membership; modifying eligibility for certain retired members; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1246"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1246 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McBride", "Smalley"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b7a1a52-9b38-46fc-83be-8020b7c58433"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1246&session=2000"
source_hash: "d8d4294c55807f51cc78011fca84af084ead7f9e0e93e399e76ba7fe8d5cfd20"
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 HB 1246 (2020) — Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma; membership; modifying eligibility for certain retired members; effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 INT/hB/HB1246 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/hB/HB1246 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/hB/HB1246 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/HB1246 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/HB1246 SFLR.PDF)
6. **HB1246 FULLPCS1 MARK MCBRIDE-EK.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1246 FULLPCS1 MARK MCBRIDE-EK.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1246 CS.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McBride — primary (person)
- Smalley — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-04** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Authored by Representative McBride, Hasenbeck
- **2019-02-06** Second Reading referred to Rules `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2019-02-25** Referred to Appropriations and Budget `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** Authored by Senator Smalley (principal Senate author)
- **2019-03-11** General Order
- **2019-03-11** Coauthored by Representative(s) Nollan
- **2019-03-11** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 97 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-12** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-25** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-08** Reported Do Pass Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-17** General Order, Considered
- **2019-04-17** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-04-18** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2019-04-22** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2019-04-22** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-25** Approved by Governor 04/25/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b7a1a52-9b38-46fc-83be-8020b7c58433`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).