---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; creating the Advancing Rights for Caregiving, Health, and Extended Recovery (Maternity Leave Protection for Teachers) Act; effective date."
description: "Schools; creating the Advancing Rights for Caregiving, Health, and Extended Recovery (Maternity Leave Protection for Teachers) Act; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1601"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1601 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gise", "Mann"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dab3901-65d2-4b2b-97ea-878ee897b681"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1601&session=2600"
source_hash: "1152818f2f1a7288274495c2a7ea47ab6ba50f4c09509906b057bf208b62e961"
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 1601 (2026) — Schools; creating the Advancing Rights for Caregiving, Health, and Extended Recovery (Maternity Leave Protection for Teachers) Act; effective date.

## 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/HB1601 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1601 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1601 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1601 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1601 SFLR.PDF)
6. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1601 CS.PDF)
7. **Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1601 FULLPCS1 EMILY GISE-SW.PDF)

## Votes

- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **30–3** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **58–27** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–5** (pass) · upper
- Education — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass — **8–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gise — primary (person)
- Mann — 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 Gise
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** Coauthored by Representative(s) Pae
- **2025-03-06** Authored by Senator Frix (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-17** General Order
- **2025-03-17** Coauthored by Representative(s) Ranson, Waldron
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 58 Nays: 27 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-18** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-18** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Remove as author Senator Frix; authored by Senator Mann
- **2025-04-02** Coauthored by Senator Frix
- **2025-04-07** Coauthored by Senator Stanley
- **2025-04-22** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on General Order
- **2025-04-30** General Order, Considered
- **2025-04-30** Measure passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-01** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-05-01** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-05-01** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07** Approved by Governor 05/06/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0dab3901-65d2-4b2b-97ea-878ee897b681`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).