Our 2026 Oklahoma Education Bill Tracker
Included are bills impacting Oklahoma’s K-12 public schools.
2026 Oklahoma Education Bill Tracker
Our Bill Tracker this year includes a focus on bills that fall under the parameters of Advance Oklahoma’s Kids B.O.O.K. (Better Outcomes for Oklahoma’s Kids) Policy Initiative focusing on the following areas: Strengthening the Teaching Profession, Ensuring Adequate Resources, Improving Student Performance, and Creating a Safe, Healthy and Supportive School Environment.
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Instructions for Navigating the Tracker
Bills are sorted chronologically by bill number.
Vills are updated weekly to include only those still alive - please scroll down within the tracker box to access all bills.
Bills can be read and analyzed in more detail by clicking hyperlink in bill title.
Current status can be seen in italics below the bill summary.
Our positions are indicated by the following color key:
DARK GREEN - Strongly Support
LIGHT GREEN - Support
GRAY - Neutral or Monitoring
ORANGE - Oppose
RED - Strongly Oppose
Make sure to check out our priority list of bills, located below, after the Bill Tracker. This will give you a better view of what bills we are focusing on the most!
Bills We Are Championing:
HB3638 – Summer EBT Implementation - creates a pathway for Oklahoma to participate in the federal Summer EBT program beginning in 2027, helping ensure 55,000 kids have access to food when school meals are unavailable. Also infuses $75M of federal dollars into local grocery stores and community economies (B.O.O.K. Safe, Healthy & Supportive Schools).
SB1481 & SB2045 - Increased Recess Time - these bills require public elementary schools in Oklahoma to provide students with up to 40 minutes more of outside recess time daily. Up next - Senate Floor! (B.O.O.K. Improving Student Performance)
HB4326 - OHLAP Expansion - expands the Oklahoma’s Promise for higher learning access to include career tech tuition, foster children, and children of counselors, librarians, school nurses, athletic trainers, tech school teachers. Up next - House Floor! (B.O.O.K. Strengthening the Teaching Profession)
ALL TEACHER PAY INCREASES - these include SB1339, SB201. (B.O.O.K. Strengthening the Teaching Profession)
Bills We Are Supporting
HB3674 - Student Sexual Assault Reporting - mandates that all reports of sexual assault occurring within schools must be reported to a law enforcement agency, and school districts must ensure their school resource officers (SROs) have completed specific training related to sexual assault and sexual violence. (B.O.O.K. Safe, Healthy & Supportive Schools).
HB3467 - Expanded Maternity Leave - expands paid maternity leave for certain full-time education employees in Oklahoma to include the adoption of a child, provided the child is under four years old, and clarifies that this leave must be taken immediately following the adoption. (B.O.O.K. Strengthening the Teaching Profession)
HB4427 & SB1614 - strengthen requirements for adjunct teachers. (B.O.O.K. Strengthening the Teaching Profession)
SB1546 - Inspired to Teach Program Expansion - increases the scholarship amounts available to aspiring teachers in Oklahoma. (B.O.O.K. Strengthening the Teaching Profession)
HB3671 & SB1317 - expand the definition of a "career teacher" for evaluation purposes. (B.O.O.K. Strengthening the Teaching Profession)
SB1204 - requires school districts to provide three days of paid bereavement leave to teachers and support personnel employees following the death of their spouse or child, which also includes leave for a miscarriage. (B.O.O.K. Strengthening the Teaching Profession)
Bills We Are Opposing
HB 3240 - Mandating Prayer in Schools - requires school districts to adopt a policy that provides students and employees with an opportunity to participate in a period of prayer and reading of religious texts on each school day. Students and teachers already have the freedom to do this during the school day.
HB3151 - School Calendar Expansion - increases the minimum number of instructional days required for schools without adequately addressing the additional funding needed to do so.
HJR1055 - State Superintendent Changes - changes how the State Superintendent of Public Instruction is selected and removed - instead of elected, they would be appointed by the Governor. This HJR would create a state question to put to the vote of the people.
SB1250 & HB2978 - Book Bans - these books continue to remove local control surrounding library media selection.