---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; making an appropriation to the State Board of Education; directing establishment of pilot program to employ literacy instructional team. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Schools; making an appropriation to the State Board of Education; directing establishment of pilot program to employ literacy instructional team. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1118"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1118 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thompson (Roger)", "Wallace"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-20"
last_action: "2023-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb592fdb-b196-4a8d-815d-7c2dbadf11c2"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1118&session=2400"
source_hash: "b5ff8647f4d312d3e32d5c48bf6673bdd4b4b7b80d88d7d253fc7ae1b42981b4"
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 1118 (2024) — Schools; making an appropriation to the State Board of Education; directing establishment of pilot program to employ literacy instructional team. 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/SB1118 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1118 PCS.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1118 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1118 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1118 HFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Joint Committee On Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- Joint Committee On Appropriations And Budget: Committee Substitute, Motion By Senator Rader - Adopted (Request No: 2218) — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **82–1** (pass) · lower

## 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 Senator Newhouse
- **2023-05-17** JCR adopted
- **2023-05-17** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `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: 82 Nays: 1 `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/bb592fdb-b196-4a8d-815d-7c2dbadf11c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).