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Oklahoma · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1276: Schools; requiring district policies prohibiting student cell phone and personal electronic device use under certain circumstances; effective date; emergency.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1276 is a bill introduced in the Oklahoma House on February 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Schools; requiring district policies prohibiting student cell phone and personal electronic device use under certain circumstances; effective date; emergency. Primary sponsor: Ally Seifried (Republican), Chad Caldwell (Republican). Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2025): Placed on General Order.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ally SeifriedPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate2
Chad CaldwellPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse40

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Placed on General Order
  2. Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed
  3. Second Reading referred to Education
  4. First Reading
  5. Engrossed, signed, to Senate
  6. Referred for engrossment
  7. Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 82 Nays: 9
  8. Coauthored by Representative(s) Burns
  9. General Order
  10. Coauthored by Representative(s) Moore
  11. CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee
  12. Authored by Senator Seifried (principal Senate author)

Showing 12 most recent of 18 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source