---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education; modifying the name, membership, and duties of the Oklahoma Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Advisory Committee. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Higher education; modifying the name, membership, and duties of the Oklahoma Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Advisory Committee. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1550"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1550 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Green", "Moore"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b0fc05c-3fa3-4055-8b3a-08754cabe225"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1550&session=2400"
source_hash: "84cdcc81a6177cd56ac3819bf038d65b5e3b163af1c606d9d4924f7dadcfff1e"
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 1550 (2024) — Higher education; modifying the name, membership, and duties of the Oklahoma Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Advisory Committee. 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/SB1550 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB1550 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB1550 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB1550 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB1550 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–5** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **84–4** (pass) · lower
- Education — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Higher Education And Career Tech Committee: Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Green — primary (person)
- Moore — 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 Green
- **2024-02-05** Coauthored by Representative Moore (principal House author)
- **2024-02-06** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** General Order, Considered
- **2024-03-04** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-03-05** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2024-03-05** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Second Reading referred to Higher Education and Career Tech `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** CR; Do Pass Higher Education and Career Tech Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-22** General Order
- **2024-04-22** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-22** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-04-23** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-04-23** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-04-23** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-26** Approved by Governor 04/26/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b0fc05c-3fa3-4055-8b3a-08754cabe225`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).