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Week 2 of legislation is done and this week we are looking at full committee agendas. Within the last week a number of shell bills and committee substitutes were filed, and we saw significant movement on several of the priority bills we are tracking. </div>
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<span class="elementToProof">I have a bill list below my sigunature line that includes all of our tracked legislation as of the end of last week. </span>Please remember that legislation can change quickly, be sure to check the current status of bills and read
full language at <span class="elementToProof"><a href="http://www.oklegislature.gov/BasicSearchForm.aspx">http://www.oklegislature.gov/BasicSearchForm.aspx</a></span>.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Colbi Beam, Ph.D.</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Associate Vice Chancellor for State Grants and Scholarships</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">655 Research Parkway, Suite 200</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" href="mailto:cbeam@osrhe.edu">cbeam@osrhe.edu</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;" class="elementToProof"><i>The update below reflects the major legislation concerning Higher Education.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);" class="elementToProof"><i>If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Jarrett Jobe, Vice Chancellor for Governmental Relations, at
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>Priority Legislation List</b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>2/13/26</b></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Agency Admin</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1399 by Sen. Micheal Bergstrom: </b>Creates the Federal Funds Oversight Act. It requires, beginning for fiscal year 2028 and each subsequent fiscal year and prior to accepting federal funding the Office of Management and
Enterprise Services (OMES) and the state agency which will be charged with accepting the federal funding electronically submit a report to the Governor, the Senate president pro tempore, House speaker, the State Auditor and Inspector, and the State Treasurer.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Rules Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Concurrent Enrollmet</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3126 by Rep. Kevin West: </b>Creates a Concurrent Enrollment revolving fund. Funds it through the Commissioners of the Land office.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Appropriations and Budget Committee(s). Passed 8-2 on 2/9.</u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>General Education</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1482 by Sen. Ally Seifried: </b>creating the Oklahoma City National Memorial Education Revolving Fund; directing certain license plate fee to be deposited into fund.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Aeronautics & Transportation then Appropriations Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1781 by Sen. Randy Grellner: </b>Creates the Federal Education Deregulation Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding federal education funding sources and state and local use of federal funds. It sunsets the task
force on Dec. 1, 2026.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education then Appropriations Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Graduation Requirements</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1477 by Sen. Ally Seifried: </b>Puts a cap of 21 years of age for students who are receiving high-school-level instruction at home to enroll in any course otherwise eligible high school student.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education Committee(s). Title Stricken. Passed 10-0 on 2/10.</u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Gun Laws</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB2090 by Sen. Dusty Deevers: </b>Allows concealed carry on college campuses for those with a valid handgun license.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Public Safety Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Higher Education</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3132 by Rep. Kevin West: </b>Creates the Selecting Neutral Accreditors Act. Requires each institution to review its accrediting agencies to see if they have adopted or used DEI practices in the last 5 years and report the
findings to legislative leadership and change to an accreditor that has not used DEI.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Postsecondary Education then Education Overisght Committee(s). Passed 6-3 on 2/10.</u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3134 by Rep. Kevin West: </b>Creates the Keep Accreditation about academics act. Defines and creates civil penealties for violating a framework for basing accredidation decisions.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee(s). Passed 5-2 on 2/12.</u></span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3315 by Rep. Ryan Eaves: </b>Calls for a Regents for Higher Education feasibility study on implementing a 90 credit hours or 3 year bachelors program</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Postsecondary Education then Education Overisght Committee(s). Passed 9-0 on 2/10.</u></span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3316 by Rep. Ryan Eaves: </b>HEAR act, Requires an institution of Higher education to complete a request for a security threat assessment at least 30 days prior to an event.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Rules Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3379 by Rep. Trish Ranson: </b>Creates the Higher Education Workforce Development and Fair Admission Act. It prohibits a state educational institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education from inquiring about
a prospective student's criminal history on an initial application form or at any time during the admissions process prior to the institution's decision relative to the prospective student's acceptance for admission.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Postsecondary Education then Education Overisght Committee(s). Passed 6-2 on 2/10.</u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3493 by Rep. Ryan Eaves: </b>Requires documentation of United State nationality or status as an alien lawfully present in the United States to receive certain public funds for higher education tuition.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3700 by Rep. Chad Caldwell: </b>Requires the all state educational institutions to create a policy ensuring student grades are evaluated solely on an academic basis. Regents are required to withhold funding from institutions
that fail to adopt such a policy.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Postsecondary Education then Education Overisght Committee(s). Passed 6-2 on 2/10.</u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3709 by Rep. Chad Caldwell: </b>Directs any educational system within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education that constructs any new building to place a mount equal to 5 percent of the construction cost into a general
maintenance fund to be utilized for general upkeep and maintenance of buildings owned by the institution, not for new construction. The bill prohibits these funds from supplanting or replacing existing allocations to that purpose.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB4344 by Rep. Anthony Moore: </b>Permits the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to reduce allocations in order to make payments for annual obligations.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Appropriations and Budget Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HJR1037 by Rep. Gabe Woolley: </b>Proposes a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature, by a majority vote of both the Senate and the House and with gubernatorial approval or a legislative
veto override, to freeze, suspend, or withhold up to 100 percent of state-appropriated funding to any taxpayer-funded university, college, or institution of higher education for up to two years. It also would allow the Legislature to vote at any time to lift,
terminate, or modify the freeze, suspension, or withholding of funds using the same procedures. It provides the freeze, suspension, or withholding of funds would only apply to state funding and would not affect federal or private funds.</span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1261 by Sen. Warren Hamilton: </b>Prohibits the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education from keeping confidential any information pertaining to donors and prospective donors to or for the benefit of the institutions or
agencies. The bill defines applicable terms.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education then Appropriations Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1357 by Sen. Carri Hicks: </b>Requires, subject to the availability of funds, the Legislature to provide matching funds for federal grant funds received by the state through the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act provided
by the United States Department of Education, or any successor grant program of the same purpose administered by any agency of the United States, on a dollar-for-dollar basis.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1593 by Sen. Todd Gollihare: </b>Deletes language regarding the promulgation of rules and the presidential search process for the Board of Trustees for Oklahoma State University/Tulsa.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1631 by Sen. Randy Grellner: </b>Creates the Oklahoma Free Speech Committee defines membership. Tasks the committee with collecting complaints of free speech violations at institutions of higher education. Requires Institutions
to post written notification on how to report to this committee as part of freshman orientation.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1669 by Sen. Warren Hamilton: </b>Requires every institute within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to list how many students from foreign countries and territories are enrolled, their country of origin and
the percentage of total enrollment comprised of these students on their website.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1843 by Sen. Shane Jett: </b>Providing immunity from personal liability for members of the State Regents for any negligent or wrongful act of an employee of any institution.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Judiciary Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB2051 by Sen. Kristen Thompson: </b>Creates the Oklahoma Research Attraction Program (ORAP) matches private gifts to institutions from the created revolving fund. Defines elligibility and sets up continuing fund in the state
treasurery.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education then Appropriations Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Higher Education Affordability</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3051 by Rep. Ron Stewart: </b>Modifies qualifications for participation in the Tulsa Reconciliation Education and Scholarship Program.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Appropriations and Budget Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB2040 by Sen. Regina Goodwin: </b>Modifies eligibility for the Tulsa Reconciliation Education and Scholarship Program.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1272 by Sen. Kelly Hines: </b>increases the student's parent's income level to qualify for the Oklahoma Tuition Equalization Grant to $80,000 from $50,000.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Education then Appropriations Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Higher Education/CareerTech</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1968 by Sen. Rob Standridge: </b>Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, in consultation with the State Board of Career and Technology Education, to adopt a policy allowing institutions within The Oklahoma
State System of Higher Education to grant college credit for courses taken at technology center school districts under the authority of the State Board of Career and Technology Education.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Oklahomas Promise</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>HB2963 by Rep. Rick West: </b>Removes the ACT test as one of the qualifying criteria for the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP).</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to A&B Education then to Appropriations Committee(s). Passed 7-3 on 2/9.</u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB2982 by Rep. Chris Banning: </b>Modifies the qualification for the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP) for students who are the child of a certified classroom teacher to also allow those who will graduate in 2025.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3395 by Rep. Amanda Clinton: </b>modifies eligibility requirements for the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program. Changing certified classroom teacher to school employee</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB3963 by Rep. Cyndi Munson: </b>opens the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program scholarship to children of all school employees.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB4326 by Rep. Anthony Moore: </b>modifies the qualifications for the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program to include students in court ordered custody or a federally recognized Indian tribe.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Appropriations and Budget Committee(s). Passed 9-0 on 2/9.</u></span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>HB4479 by Rep. Jared Deck: </b>Requires the completion of an Oklahomas Promise application for all high school graduates.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1340 by Sen. Adam Pugh: </b>Increases income eligibility limits for Oklahomas Promise. It increases the income cap for the program to $130,000 beginning with the 2027-2028 academic year.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1615 by Sen. Avery Frix: </b>Extends Oklahomas Promise for teachers students elligibility to certified administrators. Adds the SAT and CLT as elligible tests.</span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1899 by Sen. Adam Pugh: </b>Provides eligibility for children of school district certified personnel in the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Teacher Recruitment & Retention</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1546 by Sen. Adam Pugh: </b>Renames the Inspired to Teach Program; increasing scholarship amounts</span></div>
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</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1891 by Sen. Lisa Standridge: </b>Creates the Oklahoma Teacher-Led Curriculum Development Act. It requires the State Department of Education to establish a curriculum consortium to review curriculum developed by teachers
in Oklahoma and make such curriculum available for use by teachers in school districts statewide.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b><u>Workforce and Economic Development</u></b></span><b><br>
</b><span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1632 by Sen. Jerry Alvord: </b>Recuires the Regents for Higher Education to allow institutions to grant college credit based on assessment-based credentials and scores earned on career-readiness assessments.</span></div>
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<span class="elementToProof"><b>SB1830 by Sen. Shane Jett: </b>Prohibits the employment of individuals that meet the definition of an H-1B nonimmigrant, as provided in 8 U.S.C., Section 1182(n)(4)(C), to qualify for payments specified in the Oklahoma Quality
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<span class="elementToProof"><u>Update: Assigned to Rules Committee(s). </u></span></div>
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