---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education; Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education; student advisory board; repealers; effective date; emergency."
description: "Higher education; Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education; student advisory board; repealers; effective date; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 2903"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2903 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pugh", "Townley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa752ced-ddbf-47d3-b7ec-f54f76478b9a"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2903&session=2600"
source_hash: "91b29c6e6eb0f8a7f46a97a530caa9652f0aef26bbac7ba016c5bfcf61dbafce"
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 2903 (2026) — Higher education; Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education; student advisory board; repealers; 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/HB2903 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB2903 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB2903 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB2903 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB2903 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **81–5** (pass) · lower
- Education — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pugh — primary (person)
- Townley — 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 Townley
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Postsecondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Postsecondary Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04** Authored by Senator Pugh (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-26** General Order
- **2025-03-26** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 81 Nays: 5 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-26** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-26** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **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 and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `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`
- **2025-05-08** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/08/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa752ced-ddbf-47d3-b7ec-f54f76478b9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).