---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; meetings of district boards of education; allowing board to submit an affidavit in lieu of meeting minutes in certain circumstances; effective date."
description: "Schools; meetings of district boards of education; allowing board to submit an affidavit in lieu of meeting minutes in certain circumstances; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1958"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1958 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sacchieri", "Staires"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f436080-2877-4ef6-bf50-a60dedafb22d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1958&session=2600"
source_hash: "410c7c170a13d5eac98cced907677641566a1d86312382405b403ee433207db6"
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 1958 (2026) — Schools; meetings of district boards of education; allowing board to submit an affidavit in lieu of meeting minutes in certain circumstances; 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/HB1958 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1958 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1958 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1958 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1958 SFLR.PDF)
6. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1958 CS.PDF)
7. **Policy Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1958 POLREC.PDF)
8. **Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1958 POLPCS1 CLAY STAIRES-SW.PDF)

## Votes

- Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- Education — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Advance — **40–4** (pass) · upper
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **88–4** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sacchieri — primary (person)
- Staires — 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 Staires
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2025-02-13** Referred to Education Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** 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`
- **2025-03-05** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Authored by Senator Sacchieri (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-24** General Order
- **2025-03-24** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-25** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-25** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Placed on General Order
- **2025-04-22** General Order, Considered
- **2025-04-22** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-23** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-04-23** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-04-23** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-23** Approved by Governor 04/23/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f436080-2877-4ef6-bf50-a60dedafb22d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).