---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education; establishing the Oklahoma Free Speech Committee to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education."
description: "Higher education; establishing the Oklahoma Free Speech Committee to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 3543"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 3543 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "Daniels"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5e11f82-0660-482e-bd12-174491f11af3"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB3543&session=2200"
source_hash: "92af5eab08dce9865672e36bc88b1789b9940ad0f6236aaadae0b4f629f7c467"
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 3543 (2022) — Higher education; establishing the Oklahoma Free Speech Committee to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

## 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/2021-22 INT/hB/HB3543 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by CALDWELL** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB3543 FA1 CALDWELLCH-MJ.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/hB/HB3543 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/hB/HB3543 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/HB3543 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/HB3543 SFLR.PDF)
7. **HB3543 FULLPCS1 CHAD CALDWELL-MJ.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB3543 FULLPCS1 CHAD CALDWELL-MJ.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB3543 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- Daniels — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Authored by Representative Caldwell (Chad)
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Higher Education and Career Tech `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Higher Education and Career Tech Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Authored by Senator Daniels (principal Senate author)
- **2022-03-09** General Order
- **2022-03-09** Amended by floor substitute
- **2022-03-09** Emergency added
- **2022-03-09** Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 66 Nays: 27; Ayes: 61 Nays: 22 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-03-10** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2022-03-10** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-24** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-18** General Order, Considered
- **2022-04-18** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2022-04-18** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2022-04-18** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-04-19** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2022-04-19** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2022-04-19** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-20** Approved by Governor 04/20/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5e11f82-0660-482e-bd12-174491f11af3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).