---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma National Guard Educational Assistance Act; providing for review of certain fees; authorizing establishment of certain cap; modifying retention eligibility; emergency."
description: "Oklahoma National Guard Educational Assistance Act; providing for review of certain fees; authorizing establishment of certain cap; modifying retention eligibility; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 2257"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2257 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller", "Stanley"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0eb89790-14d0-4fff-9493-9ac5d710073f"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2257&session=2600"
source_hash: "d02afdc1090a41e2c124ea3d9db73dde7277a5b4b7ff79b43bbb364023f3383d"
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 2257 (2026) — Oklahoma National Guard Educational Assistance Act; providing for review of certain fees; authorizing establishment of certain cap; modifying retention eligibility; 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/hB/HB2257 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/HB2257 SAHB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB2257 CA1.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB2257 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB2257 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB2257 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB2257 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Fourth Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **86–6** (pass) · lower
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **42–2** (pass) · upper
- Education — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)
- Stanley — 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 Miller
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Postsecondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Postsecondary Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Authored by Senator Stanley (principal Senate author)
- **2025-02-26** CR; Do Pass Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** General Order
- **2025-03-05** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 86 Nays: 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-06** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-22** Title stricken
- **2025-04-22** Emergency added
- **2025-04-22** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2025-05-06** Placed on General Order
- **2025-05-08** General Order, Considered
- **2025-05-08** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-05-12** SA's received
- **2025-05-14** SA's rejected, conference requested, conferees to be named later
- **2025-05-15** HC's named: Conference Committee on Education Oversight
- **2025-05-15** Conference granted, SCs named Stanley, Pugh, Seifried, Rader, Deevers, Hicks
- **2025-05-20** CCR submitted
- **2025-05-20** Title restored
- **2025-05-21** CCR adopted
- **2025-05-21** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-21** To Senate
- **2025-05-21** CCR read
- **2025-05-21** CCR adopted
- **2025-05-21** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-22** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-05-22** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-05-22** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/29/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0eb89790-14d0-4fff-9493-9ac5d710073f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).