---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education employees; entitling certain employees to certain amount of paid maternity leave. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Education employees; entitling certain employees to certain amount of paid maternity leave. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1121"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1121 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thompson (Roger)", "Wallace"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-20"
last_action: "2023-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12479fa4-d1f8-4375-89da-dfaa97c97d9d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1121&session=2300"
source_hash: "d2095c528b0e6edaefb2f651c765612758bb66c85b2d5fa9ae2a67d6336e0e5f"
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 1121 (2023) — Education employees; entitling certain employees to certain amount of paid maternity leave. Effective date. Emergency.

## 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB1121 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1121 PCS.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1121 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1121 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1121 HFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Thompson (Roger) — primary (person)
- Wallace — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-20** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-20** Authored by Senator Thompson (Roger)
- **2023-02-20** Coauthored by Senator Hall
- **2023-02-20** Coauthored by Representative Wallace (principal House author)
- **2023-02-20** Coauthored by Representative Martinez
- **2023-02-22** Second Reading referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget committee; JCR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-16** Coauthored by Representative Deck
- **2023-05-16** Coauthored by Senator Newhouse
- **2023-05-17** JCR adopted
- **2023-05-17** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 4 `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-05-17** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Coauthored by Representative McBride
- **2023-05-17** Coauthored by Representative Baker
- **2023-05-17** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Second Reading, direct to Joint Calendar
- **2023-05-19** General Order
- **2023-05-19** Coauthored by Senator(s) Pugh
- **2023-05-19** JCR adopted
- **2023-05-19** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-19** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-05-19** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-05-19** Enrolled, to House
- **2023-05-19** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-05-19** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Approved by Governor 05/25/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12479fa4-d1f8-4375-89da-dfaa97c97d9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).