---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charter schools; sponsorship; adding county to certain sponsor; effective date; emergency."
description: "Charter schools; sponsorship; adding county to certain sponsor; effective date; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1940"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1940 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stanley", "Sterling"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b0eba70-7e03-4599-9636-0a699c904ee5"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1940&session=2500"
source_hash: "df8714b3d7302da8060931ef037b6af314f2e5b64044bc06b7d14513e143f418"
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 1940 (2025) — Charter schools; sponsorship; adding county to certain sponsor; effective date; emergency.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/hB/HB1940 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1940 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1940 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1940 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1940 SFLR.PDF)
6. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1940 CS.PDF)
7. **Policy Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1940 POLREC.PDF)
8. **Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1940 POLPCS1 DANNY STERLING-AQH.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Stanley — primary (person)
- Sterling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Authored by Representative Sterling
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Education Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Common Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Common Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24** Authored by Senator Stanley (principal Senate author)
- **2025-02-24** Emergency added
- **2025-02-26** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12** General Order
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-13** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-13** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Placed on General Order
- **2025-05-01** General Order, Considered
- **2025-05-01** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-05** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-05-05** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-05-05** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12** Approved by Governor 05/09/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b0eba70-7e03-4599-9636-0a699c904ee5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).