---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education; private educational institutions; religious degrees; modifier; effective date; emergency."
description: "Higher education; private educational institutions; religious degrees; modifier; effective date; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4050"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 4050 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["May", "Prieto"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/906202c8-af2d-4780-83a4-06481d983f42"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB4050&session=2400"
source_hash: "9fedc0c5bb80cf76b621173e32315c094dd7670ae5f31993af8ab14c28f461a1"
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 4050 (2024) — Higher education; private educational institutions; religious degrees; modifier; 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/hB/HB4050 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/hB/HB4050 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/hB/HB4050 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/HB4050 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/HB4050 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–7** (pass) · upper
- Higher Education And Career Tech Committee: Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **83–2** (pass) · lower
- Education — **9–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- May — primary (person)
- Prieto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-05** Authored by Representative May
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Higher Education and Career Tech `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** CR; Do Pass Higher Education and Career Tech Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Authored by Senator Prieto (principal Senate author)
- **2024-03-07** General Order
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 83 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-03-11** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-19** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-17** General Order, Considered
- **2024-04-17** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2024-04-17** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2024-04-17** Coauthored by Senator Bullard
- **2024-04-17** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-04-18** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2024-04-18** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2024-04-18** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-24** Approved by Governor 04/23/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/906202c8-af2d-4780-83a4-06481d983f42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).