---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teacher preparation; requiring certain student teaching requirements. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Teacher preparation; requiring certain student teaching requirements. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 794"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 794 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowe (Dick)", "Seifried"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e95779b-183d-4f17-a363-f70c8a00fcca"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB794&session=2500"
source_hash: "581bec78f6af8eff9dc0fd01ca985814e28b1ab1740060bb8a972cb3bad97548"
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 794 (2025) — Teacher preparation; requiring certain student teaching requirements. 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/SB794 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB794 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB794 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB794 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB794 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Lowe (Dick) — 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
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-05** Coauthored by Representative Lowe (Dick) (principal House author)
- **2025-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-11** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** 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`
- **2025-04-23** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-29** General Order
- **2025-04-29** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 86 Nays: 0 `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 05/05/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e95779b-183d-4f17-a363-f70c8a00fcca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).