republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/sb-212.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	Teacher preparation; directing the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to establish TeachForwardOK.	Teacher preparation; directing the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to establish TeachForwardOK.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	SB 212	Oklahoma SB 212 (2026)	bill		enacted	Caldwell (Chad) Seifried	8	43	9	2025-02-03	2025-05-29	openstates	ocd-bill/8c8bb234-e8c3-48ad-9511-020028829880	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB212&session=2600	03b711be476c37f111502ab6aaffd8203bf4fe98b47278636cb05377e7e5feb4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 212 (2026) — Teacher preparation; directing the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to establish TeachForwardOK.

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/SB212 INT.PDF)
2. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB212 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
3. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB212 PCS.PDF)
4. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB212 CS.PDF)
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB212 ENGR.PDF)
6. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB212 ENR.PDF)
7. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB212 HFLR.PDF)
8. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB212 SFLR.PDF)

Votes

• Fourth Reading — 34–10 (pass) · upper
• Education — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended, Strike The Enacting Clause — 26–2 (pass) · lower
• Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Appropriations — 22–0 (pass) · upper
• Emergency — 43–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 34–10 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 59–28 (pass) · lower
• Fourth Reading — 51–29 (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 Senator Seifried
• 2025-02-04 Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Title stricken
• 2025-02-19 Referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-03-03 Placed on General Order
• 2025-03-04 Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad) (principal House author)
• 2025-03-13 General Order, Considered
• 2025-03-13 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 34 Nays: 10 passage
• 2025-03-13 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-03-17 Engrossed to House passage
• 2025-03-17 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-01 Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee committee-passage
• 2025-04-17 CR; Do Pass, as amended, Appropriations and Budget Committee committee-passage
• 2025-04-17 Enacting clause stricken
• 2025-05-06 General Order
• 2025-05-06 Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 59 Nays: 28; Ayes: 59 Nays: 28 passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-05-07 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2025-05-07 HAs read
• 2025-05-13 HAs rejected, conference requested amendment-failure
• 2025-05-13 SCs named GCCA
• 2025-05-15 Conference granted, naming GCCA
• 2025-05-21 CCR read, GCCA
• 2025-05-21 Title restored
• 2025-05-21 Emergency clause restored
• 2025-05-21 Enacting clause restored
• 2025-05-22 CCR adopted, GCCA
• 2025-05-22 Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 34 Nays: 10 passage
• 2025-05-22 Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0
• 2025-05-22 CCR submitted
• 2025-05-22 CCR adopted
• 2025-05-22 Fourth Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 51 Nays: 29; Ayes: 51 Nays: 29 passage
• 2025-05-22 To Senate
• 2025-05-22 Referred for enrollment
• 2025-05-22 Enrolled, to House
• 2025-05-22 Signed, returned 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/8c8bb234-e8c3-48ad-9511-020028829880. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).