---
type: "Bill"
title: "Roofing Contractor Registration Act; requiring continuing education to be determined and approved by certain persons; requiring valid endorsement to work. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Roofing Contractor Registration Act; requiring continuing education to be determined and approved by certain persons; requiring valid endorsement to work. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1873"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1873 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dempsey", "Logan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/887728b3-9fbc-4efe-92d8-c435fdee81fa"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1873&session=2600"
source_hash: "689a0515caff544c30fffecf0b2cb72c4e7d5be9b28ed60b7c21a9b01a3539f6"
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 1873 (2026) — Roofing Contractor Registration Act; requiring continuing education to be determined and approved by certain persons; requiring valid endorsement to work. 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/SB1873 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1873 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1873 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1873 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1873 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Continuing Education To Be Determined And Approved — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **14–1** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **68–13** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **34–7** (pass) · upper
- Business Committee: Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dempsey — primary (person)
- Logan — 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 Logan
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Reported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-16** Coauthored by Representative Dempsey (principal House author)
- **2026-03-26** General Order, Considered
- **2026-03-26** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 34 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2026-03-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-30** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-30** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-31** Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-31** Referred to Business `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-31** Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Business `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-15** CR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-29** General Order
- **2026-04-29** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 68 Nays: 13 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-29** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-04-30** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-04-30** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-04-30** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-07** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/07/2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/887728b3-9fbc-4efe-92d8-c435fdee81fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).