republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/hb-1277.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	State Board of Education; providing reasons for which a license or certificate may be revoked or suspended; providing for notice; effective date; emergency.	State Board of Education; providing reasons for which a license or certificate may be revoked or suspended; providing for notice; effective date; emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	HB 1277	Oklahoma HB 1277 (2026)	bill		enacted	Caldwell (Chad) Seifried	10	32	6	2025-02-03	2025-05-29	openstates	ocd-bill/37c5a6fe-5a49-4b2b-b343-5ee0cae49cc3	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1277&session=2600	59cb5f6e56ab34f235742feddb516f4f68eb882d4136212e54d3cf35a47fb7c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 1277 (2026) — State Board of Education; providing reasons for which a license or certificate may be revoked or suspended; providing for notice; 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/hB/HB1277 INT.PDF)
2. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/HB1277 SAHB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB1277 PCS.PDF)
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1277 ENGR.PDF)
5. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1277 ENR.PDF)
6. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1277 HFLR.PDF)
7. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1277 SFLR.PDF)
8. HB1277 (4-29-25) (SEIFRIED) FS FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB1277 (4-29-25) (SEIFRIED) FS FA1.PDF)
9. HB1277 (4-29-25) (SEIFRIED) RT FA2.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/HB1277 (4-29-25) (SEIFRIED) RT FA2.PDF)
10. Senate Committee Substitute for House Bill (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCSH/HB1277 SCSH.PDF)

Votes

• Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended, Strike The Title — 29–0 (pass) · lower
• Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Education — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–6 (pass) · upper
• Fourth Reading — 78–12 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 56–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
• Seifried — 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 Caldwell (Chad)
• 2025-02-04 Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee committee-passage
• 2025-03-04 CR; Do Pass, as amended, Appropriations and Budget Committee committee-passage
• 2025-03-04 Title stricken
• 2025-03-04 Authored by Senator Seifried (principal Senate author)
• 2025-03-13 General Order
• 2025-03-13 Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 56 Nays: 23; Ayes: 56 Nays: 23 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-13 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-03-17 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2025-03-17 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, amended by committee substitute Education committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-04-22 Emergency added
• 2025-04-22 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
• 2025-04-24 Placed on General Order
• 2025-05-07 General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
• 2025-05-07 Title restored
• 2025-05-07 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 6 passage
• 2025-05-07 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-05-08 Engrossed to House passage
• 2025-05-08 SA's received
• 2025-05-21 SA's read, adopted
• 2025-05-21 Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 78 Nays: 12 passage
• 2025-05-21 Referred for enrollment
• 2025-05-22 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2025-05-22 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 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; origin ocd-bill/37c5a6fe-5a49-4b2b-b343-5ee0cae49cc3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).