---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education; directing certain institutions of higher education to establish certain training program for graduate instructors. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Higher education; directing certain institutions of higher education to establish certain training program for graduate instructors. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1726"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1726 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "Daniels"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f4f91c2-2b82-4ada-ae86-2261df46fe01"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1726&session=2600"
source_hash: "644bdd0f2793d8b141de6bfd9d92d6013ed19c663de701efdc8a77b7b4db9a79"
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 1726 (2026) — Higher education; directing certain institutions of higher education to establish certain training program for graduate instructors. 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/SB1726 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB1726 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1726 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1726 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1726 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1726 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB1726 HCS.PDF)

## Votes

- Education — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **41–7** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **78–15** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **39–7** (pass) · upper
- Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass — **7–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- Daniels — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-02-02** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Authored by Senator Daniels
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10** Title stricken
- **2026-02-10** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2026-02-16** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-12** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad) (principal House author)
- **2026-03-25** General Order, Considered
- **2026-03-25** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2026-03-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-26** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-26** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Education Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to Postsecondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Postsecondary Education `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-14** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-14** Title restored
- **2026-05-06** General Order
- **2026-05-06** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 78 Nays: 15 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-06** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-05-06** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2026-05-06** HAs read
- **2026-05-14** HAs adopted
- **2026-05-14** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2026-05-14** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-14** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-14** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-29** Approved by Governor 05/22/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f4f91c2-2b82-4ada-ae86-2261df46fe01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).