---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; providing for excused absence of students receiving certain therapy or other services related to certain program. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Schools; providing for excused absence of students receiving certain therapy or other services related to certain program. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1527"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1527 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sterling", "Weaver"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e545642-d741-4e74-9fdf-403fcef56f9c"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1527&session=2400"
source_hash: "3e888eeba770d9b115e854542590f12189d2b8294a90e28572a93c8496aaaba3"
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 1527 (2024) — Schools; providing for excused absence of students receiving certain therapy or other services related to certain program. 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/SB1527 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1527 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1527 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1527 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB1527 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Education — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Common Education Committee: Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sterling — primary (person)
- Weaver — 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 Weaver
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-06** Coauthored by Representative Sterling (principal House author)
- **2024-02-13** General Order, Considered
- **2024-02-13** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-13** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-02-13** Coauthored by Senator Treat
- **2024-02-13** Coauthored by Senator Stephens
- **2024-02-14** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2024-02-14** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Second Reading referred to Common Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** CR; Do Pass Common Education Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-17** General Order
- **2024-04-17** Coauthored by Representative(s) Rosecrants, Roe
- **2024-04-17** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-17** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-04-18** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-04-18** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-18** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-18** Coauthored by Representative Swope
- **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/6e545642-d741-4e74-9fdf-403fcef56f9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).