---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; modifying the School Resource Officer Program to allow the employment of certain individuals. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Schools; modifying the School Resource Officer Program to allow the employment of certain individuals. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1521"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1521 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowe (Dick)", "Pemberton"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39980e43-701c-4540-80cb-4ae81e298b80"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1521&session=2400"
source_hash: "040de4cdd16a7f90a5c35b36a10e7afe82823be189373093f674a352b52232c7"
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 1521 (2024) — Schools; modifying the School Resource Officer Program to allow the employment of certain individuals. 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/SB1521 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by LOWE** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB1521 FA1 LOWEDI-MJ.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB1521 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1521 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1521 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1521 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB1521 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Education — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Committee: Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **35–5** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **83–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowe (Dick) — primary (person)
- Pemberton — 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 Senator Pemberton
- **2024-02-05** Coauthored by Representative Lowe (Dick) (principal House author)
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** Coauthored by Senator Stephens
- **2024-02-27** General Order, Considered
- **2024-02-27** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-02-28** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2024-02-28** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** CR; Do Pass Rules Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-25** General Order
- **2024-04-25** Amended by floor substitute
- **2024-04-25** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 83 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-04-29** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2024-04-29** HAs read
- **2024-05-22** HAs adopted
- **2024-05-22** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2024-05-22** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-05-23** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-05-23** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Approved by Governor 05/28/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39980e43-701c-4540-80cb-4ae81e298b80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).