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HB 1276

Schools; requiring district policies prohibiting student cell phone and personal electronic device use under certain circumstances; effective date; emergency.

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Passed Senate committee Last action April 10, 2025: Placed on General Order

Same number in other sessions: 2026 · 2024 (bills from 2025 carry over into 2026 within the 60th Legislature).

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Authors & coauthors 5

Principal House author
Chad Caldwell R
Principal Senate author
Ally Seifried R
House coauthors
Anthony Moore R, Burns (not matched to a current member), Dick Lowe R

Principal authors from Open States; coauthors read from “Coauthored by …” actions (removals applied).

Status

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee (origin chamber)
  3. Passed committee (origin chamber)
  4. Passed origin chamber
  5. In committee (second chamber)
  6. Passed committee (second chamber)
  7. Passed both chambers
  8. Sent to Governor
  9. Enacted / adopted

Committee referrals 3

ReferredChamberCommitteeOutcome
Feb. 4, 2025HouseEducation OversightPassed (committee substitute) Feb. 6, 2025
Feb. 4, 2025HouseCommon EducationPassed (committee substitute) Feb. 11, 2025
April 1, 2025SenateEducationPassed April 8, 2025

Official text & documents

3 committee reports and other documents

Official bill page: https://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1276&session=2500

Timeline 18 actions

  1. Feb. 3, 2025HouseFirst Reading
  2. Feb. 3, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad)
  3. Feb. 4, 2025HouseSecond Reading referred to Education Oversight
  4. Feb. 4, 2025HouseReferred to Common Education
  5. Feb. 6, 2025HousePolicy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Common Education
  6. Feb. 6, 2025HouseCoauthored by Representative(s) Lowe (Dick)
  7. Feb. 6, 2025HouseAuthored by Senator Seifried (principal Senate author)
  8. Feb. 11, 2025HouseCR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee
  9. Feb. 11, 2025HouseCoauthored by Representative(s) Moore
  10. Feb. 13, 2025HouseGeneral Order
  11. Feb. 13, 2025HouseCoauthored by Representative(s) Burns
  12. Feb. 13, 2025HouseThird Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 82 Nays: 9
  13. Feb. 13, 2025HouseReferred for engrossment
  14. Feb. 13, 2025HouseEngrossed, signed, to Senate
  15. Feb. 13, 2025SenateFirst Reading
  16. April 1, 2025SenateSecond Reading referred to Education
  17. April 8, 2025SenateReported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed
  18. April 10, 2025SenatePlaced on General Order

On committee agendas 1

Momentum: 58 of 100

Stage (Passed committee (second chamber))31 / 50
Recency (50 days before May 30, 2025)11 / 20
Committee progress10 / 10
Coauthors6 / 10
Bipartisan sponsorship0 / 10

How this is calculated

  1. Stage reached — up to 50. 50 × (stage − 1) ÷ 8, where the stages are 1 Introduced · 2 In committee · 3 Passed committee · 4 Passed its first chamber · 5 In committee in the second chamber · 6 Passed that committee · 7 Passed both chambers · 8 Sent to the Governor · 9 Enacted / adopted.
  2. Recency — up to 20. 20 if the last recorded action was within 14 days of the reference date, falling in a straight line to 0 at 90 days. The reference date is the earlier of the data date (Oct. 1, 2026) and the session's last scheduled day, so a finished session is scored as it stood when it ended.
  3. Committee progress — up to 10. 5 for each chamber in which a committee reported the bill favourably.
  4. Coauthors — up to 10. 1 per coauthor (max 7), plus 3 if its authors and coauthors include members of both chambers.
  5. Bipartisan sponsorship — 10. 10 if the authors and coauthors include at least one Republican and one Democrat.

Rules on top: an enacted bill (signed, law without signature, or veto overridden) or an adopted resolution scores 100. A vetoed bill without an override, or one whose last committee vote failed, has its score halved.

Disclaimer. The momentum score is an automated, rough indicator built only from the public record (stage, dates, authors and committee reports). It is not a prediction, does not measure merit or support, and can be wrong when an action is mis-recorded or an author is mis-matched. Coauthors are read from the action text (“Coauthored by …”). Always check the official record on oklegislature.gov.

Bill data: Open States bulk data (public domain dedication; attribution appreciated), monthly dump of Oct. 1, 2026. Official record: oklegislature.gov.

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