republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/hb-1256.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Professions and occupations; construction skilled trade education; modifying contract terms; effective date.	Professions and occupations; construction skilled trade education; modifying contract terms; effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	HB 1256	Oklahoma HB 1256 (2026)	bill		enacted	Strom Thompson (Kristen)	9	28	5	2025-02-03	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/87402b60-010b-4f75-985b-2614fddc3348	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1256&session=2600	d147bd2fea4610930c525a12d3b423a9df2e561bc06607a5161a4dff15120eb7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 1256 (2026) — Professions and occupations; construction skilled trade education; modifying contract terms; 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/HB1256 INT.PDF)
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1256 ENGR.PDF)
3. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1256 ENR.PDF)
4. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1256 HFLR.PDF)
5. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1256 SFLR.PDF)
6. HB1256 (4-17-25) (THOMPSON) RT FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB1256 (4-17-25) (THOMPSON) RT FA1.PDF)
7. House Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1256 CS.PDF)
8. Policy Committee Recommendation (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1256 POLREC.PDF)
9. Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1256 POLPCS1 JUDD STROM-TKR.PDF)

Votes

• Third Reading — 37–6 (pass) · upper
• Trade Education; Modifying Contract Terms; — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 90–4 (pass) · lower
• Business Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 14–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Strom — primary (person)
• Thompson (Kristen) — 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 Strom
• 2025-02-04 Second Reading referred to Rules reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Withdrawn from Rules Committee
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Business referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Business committee-passage
• 2025-02-26 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee committee-passage
• 2025-03-03 General Order
• 2025-03-03 Authored by Senator Thompson (principal Senate author)
• 2025-03-03 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 4 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-03 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-03-04 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2025-03-04 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-01 Second Reading referred to Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-15 Reported Do Pass as amended Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-04-15 Title stricken
• 2025-04-17 Placed on General Order
• 2025-04-28 General Order, Amended
• 2025-04-28 Title restored
• 2025-04-28 Amendment restored bill to engrossed version amendment-passage
• 2025-04-28 Measure passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 6 passage
• 2025-04-28 Engrossed measure signed, returned to House passage
• 2025-04-28 Referred for enrollment
• 2025-04-29 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2025-04-29 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2025-04-29 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-06 Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/06/2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/87402b60-010b-4f75-985b-2614fddc3348. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).