---
type: "Bill"
title: "Students; prohibiting students of certain age or older from participating in concurrent enrollment. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Students; prohibiting students of certain age or older from participating in concurrent enrollment. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1477"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1477 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "Seifried"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d968be0b-e526-45b1-ae1a-4319d3ea9354"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1477&session=2600"
source_hash: "33dbcf5057ca21173219704dab77079f96c527d9ea2a222dbddcf28f8c9022ff"
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 1477 (2026) — Students; prohibiting students of certain age or older from participating in concurrent enrollment. 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/SB/SB1477 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1477 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1477 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1477 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1477 SFLR.PDF)
6. **SB1477 (2-23-26) (SEIFRIED) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1477 (2-23-26) (SEIFRIED) RT FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Education — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **90–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- Seifried — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Authored by Senator Seifried
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10** Title stricken
- **2026-02-10** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2026-02-16** Placed on General Order
- **2026-02-18** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad) (principal House author)
- **2026-03-16** General Order, Amended
- **2026-03-16** Title restored
- **2026-03-16** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-17** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-17** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to Postsecondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Postsecondary Education `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-13** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-28** General Order
- **2026-04-28** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-28** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-04-29** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-29** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/01/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d968be0b-e526-45b1-ae1a-4319d3ea9354`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).