republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/hb-3701.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	Higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; review; low-producing programs; emergency.	Higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; review; low-producing programs; emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	HB 3701	Oklahoma HB 3701 (2026)	bill		enacted	Caldwell (Chad) Seifried	8	26	5	2026-02-02	2026-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/4be26769-d4c2-43f5-9247-da4073efde5a	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB3701&session=2600	02a889ce967b10343b0fc9bb99d225889bb19af478086f723a865e37942cdc3e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 3701 (2026) — Higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; review; low-producing programs; 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/HB3701 INT.PDF)
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB3701 ENGR.PDF)
3. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB3701 ENR.PDF)
4. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB3701 HFLR.PDF)
5. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB3701 SFLR.PDF)
6. House Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB3701 CS.PDF)
7. Policy Committee Recommendation (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB3701 POLREC.PDF)
8. Proposed Committee Substitute (sub committee) 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB3701 SUBPCS1 CHAD CALDWELL-AQH.PDF)

Votes

• Education Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 81–13 (pass) · lower
• Education — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 37–7 (pass) · upper
• Postsecondary Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 6–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
• Seifried — 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 Representative Caldwell (Chad)
• 2026-02-03 Second Reading referred to Rules reading-2, referral-committee
• 2026-02-10 Withdrawn from Rules Committee
• 2026-02-10 Referred to Education Oversight referral-committee
• 2026-02-10 Referred to Postsecondary Education referral-committee
• 2026-02-17 Policy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Postsecondary Education committee-passage
• 2026-02-17 Authored by Senator Seifried (principal Senate author)
• 2026-02-17 Emergency added
• 2026-02-26 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee committee-passage
• 2026-03-10 General Order
• 2026-03-10 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 81 Nays: 13 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
• 2026-04-21 Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2026-04-23 Placed on General Order
• 2026-04-29 General Order, Considered
• 2026-04-29 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 7 passage
• 2026-04-29 Engrossed measure signed, returned to House passage
• 2026-04-29 Referred for enrollment
• 2026-04-30 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2026-04-30 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2026-04-30 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-06 Approved by Governor 05/05/2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4be26769-d4c2-43f5-9247-da4073efde5a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).