republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2026/sb-840.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	Teachers; establishing certain micro-credential; establishing minimum requirements for micro-credential. Effective date. Emergency.	Teachers; establishing certain micro-credential; establishing minimum requirements for micro-credential. Effective date. Emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2026	SB 840	Oklahoma SB 840 (2026)	bill		enacted	Hicks Moore	11	43	7	2025-02-03	2025-05-29	openstates	ocd-bill/135ce2ff-ead1-465e-93f0-691db6504f56	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB840&session=2600	c6183a5a6abb07c71a50fa8e21ad3a9bb410f01b4726e0f73e39bb0c45c1f997	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 840 (2026) — Teachers; establishing certain micro-credential; establishing minimum requirements for micro-credential. 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/SB/SB840 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Floor Amendment by MOORE (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB840 FA1 MOOREAN-MKS.PDF)
3. 2 Floor Amendment by OSBURN (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB840 FA2 OSBURNMI-CC.PDF)
4. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB840 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB840 ENGR.PDF)
6. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB840 ENR.PDF)
7. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB840 HFLR.PDF)
8. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB840 SFLR.PDF)
9. Proposed Committee Amendment (sub committee) 1 (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB840 SUBAMD1 ANTHONY MOORE-AQH.PDF)
10. SB840 (2-25-25) (HICKS) FA1.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB840 (2-25-25) (HICKS) FA1.PDF)
11. Sub Committee Recommendation (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB840 SUBREC.PDF)

Votes

• Third Reading — 83–0 (pass) · lower
• Fourth Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Education — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• Fourth Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended, Strike The Title — 30–0 (pass) · lower
• Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hicks — primary (person)
• Moore — 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 Hicks
• 2025-02-04 Second Reading referred to Education reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Coauthored by Representative Moore (principal House author)
• 2025-02-24 Placed on General Order
• 2025-03-27 General Order, Amended
• 2025-03-27 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 47 Nays: 0 passage
• 2025-03-27 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-03-31 Engrossed to House passage
• 2025-03-31 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, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee committee-passage
• 2025-04-16 CR; Do Pass, as amended, Appropriations and Budget Committee committee-passage
• 2025-04-16 Title stricken
• 2025-04-16 Enacting clause stricken
• 2025-04-29 General Order
• 2025-04-29 Amended by floor substitute
• 2025-04-29 Title restored
• 2025-04-29 Enacting clause restored
• 2025-04-29 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-29 Title stricken
• 2025-04-29 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 83 Nays: 0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29 Referred for engrossment
• 2025-04-30 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2025-04-30 HAs read
• 2025-05-12 HAs rejected, conference requested amendment-failure
• 2025-05-13 SCs named Hicks, Pugh, Seifried, Reinhardt, Deevers, Mann
• 2025-05-15 Conference granted, naming GCCA
• 2025-05-21 CCR read
• 2025-05-21 Title restored
• 2025-05-22 CCR adopted
• 2025-05-22 Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 passage
• 2025-05-22 CCR submitted
• 2025-05-22 CCR adopted
• 2025-05-22 Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 80 Nays: 0 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/135ce2ff-ead1-465e-93f0-691db6504f56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).