---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education; Education Leadership Oklahoma program; clarifying award coverage; increasing maximum amount; repayment; reimbursement; effective date."
description: "Education; Education Leadership Oklahoma program; clarifying award coverage; increasing maximum amount; repayment; reimbursement; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1955"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1955 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reinhardt", "Waldron"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/939ffce7-2156-40c5-a961-d4a25a7157ee"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1955&session=2600"
source_hash: "179ad7f2d7fe41ccc4c112dd28bd0035949b61654f90026ed87c510f5b330b57"
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 1955 (2026) — Education; Education Leadership Oklahoma program; clarifying award coverage; increasing maximum amount; repayment; reimbursement; effective date.

## 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/HB1955 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/HB1955 SAHB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB1955 CA1.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1955 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1955 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1955 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1955 SFLR.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1955 CS.PDF)
9. **Policy Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1955 POLREC.PDF)
10. **Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1955 POLPCS1 JOHN WALDRON-AQH.PDF)

## Votes

- Education — **10–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **52–28** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **65–20** (pass) · lower
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reinhardt — primary (person)
- Waldron — 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 Rosecrants
- **2025-02-03** Remove Representative Rosecrants as principal House author and substitute with Representative Waldron
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Education Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Common Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Common Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24** Coauthored by Representative(s) Rosecrants
- **2025-03-04** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04** Authored by Senator Reinhardt (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-17** General Order
- **2025-03-17** Coauthored by Representative(s) Deck
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 65 Nays: 20 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-18** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-18** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15** Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** Coauthored by Representative Pittman
- **2025-04-17** Placed on General Order
- **2025-05-08** General Order, Considered
- **2025-05-08** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-05-12** SA's received
- **2025-05-15** SA's read, adopted
- **2025-05-15** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 52 Nays: 28 `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-19** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-05-19** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-05-19** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/25/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/939ffce7-2156-40c5-a961-d4a25a7157ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).