republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/hb-1937.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	Schools; student communications; school personnel; administrative leave; investigation; effective date; emergency.	Schools; student communications; school personnel; administrative leave; investigation; effective date; emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	HB 1937	Oklahoma HB 1937 (2026)	bill		enacted	Howard Kannady	10	26	5	2025-02-03	2026-05-11	openstates	ocd-bill/d0a01761-ef05-4ca3-9a9a-126199e72622	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1937&session=2600	26928354ee66f5f165fcf1fb10eddeb2d9131c69b7f72591de00a4e8c70be540	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 1937 (2026) — Schools; student communications; school personnel; administrative leave; investigation; 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/HB1937 INT.PDF)
2. Amendment to Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1937 FULLPCS1-AMD1 CHAD CALDWELL-AQH.PDF)
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1937 ENGR.PDF)
4. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1937 ENR.PDF)
5. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1937 HFLR.PDF)
6. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1937 SFLR.PDF)
7. House Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1937 CS.PDF)
8. Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1937 FULLPCS1 DANNY STERLING-AQH.PDF)
9. Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 2 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1937 FULLPCS2 DANNY STERLING-AQH.PDF)
10. Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 3 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1937 FULLPCS3 CHRIS KANNADY-AQH.PDF)

Votes

• Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 84–7 (pass) · lower
• Common Education Committee: Do Pass — 8–5 (pass) · lower
• Education — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Howard — primary (person)
• Kannady — 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 Sterling
• 2025-02-04 Second Reading referred to Education Oversight reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Common Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass Common Education committee-passage
• 2025-02-06 Coauthored by Representative(s) Lowe (Dick)
• 2026-02-17 Remove Representative Sterling as principal House author and substitute with Representative Kannady
• 2026-03-04 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee committee-passage
• 2026-03-04 Authored by Senator Green (principal Senate author)
• 2026-03-10 General Order
• 2026-03-10 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 7 passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-10 Referred for engrossment
• 2026-03-11 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2026-03-11 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2026-04-01 Second Reading referred to Education reading-2, referral-committee
• 2026-04-06 Remove as author Senator Green; authored by Senator Howard
• 2026-04-21 Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2026-04-23 Placed on General Order
• 2026-05-05 General Order, Considered
• 2026-05-05 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 47 Nays: 0 passage
• 2026-05-05 Engrossed measure signed, returned to House passage
• 2026-05-05 Referred for enrollment
• 2026-05-05 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2026-05-05 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2026-05-05 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 Approved by Governor 05/07/2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0a01761-ef05-4ca3-9a9a-126199e72622. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).