---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; requiring school district boards of education to adopt certain cell phone policy."
description: "Schools; requiring school district boards of education to adopt certain cell phone policy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 139 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "Seifried"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28d3b456-4163-4e01-80d1-f528774e481c"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB139&session=2500"
source_hash: "3bce5e34b36705d546a7dc16e33c4a74a42b2ce7aa12cd934f131e48ca9cc6b3"
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 139 (2025) — Schools; requiring school district boards of education to adopt certain cell phone policy.

## 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/SB139 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB139 PCS.PDF)
3. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB139 CA1.PDF)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB139 CS.PDF)
5. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB139 ENGR.PDF)
6. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB139 ENR.PDF)
7. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB139 HFLR.PDF)
8. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB139 SFLR.PDF)
9. **SB139 (2-20-25) (SEIFRIED) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB139 (2-20-25) (SEIFRIED) RT FA1.PDF)
10. **SB139 (3-10-25) (SEIFRIED) FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB139 (3-10-25) (SEIFRIED) FA2.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- Seifried — 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 Senator Seifried
- **2025-02-03** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad) (principal House author)
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Coauthored by Senator Bergstrom
- **2025-02-11** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Title stricken
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2025-02-19** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-13** General Order, Amended
- **2025-03-13** Title restored
- **2025-03-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 30 Nays: 15 `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Emergency passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 8
- **2025-03-13** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-17** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-17** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Common Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Common Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-29** General Order
- **2025-04-29** Coauthored by Representative(s) Moore
- **2025-04-29** Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 51 Nays: 39; Ayes: 47 Nays: 35 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-29** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-30** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-04-30** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-30** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/03/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28d3b456-4163-4e01-80d1-f528774e481c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).