HB1758 • 2026

Virtual charter schools; allowing statewide virtual charter schools that reach certain assessment achievements to receive additional funds for certain expenses; effective date; emergency.

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Sponsor: Kerbs
Last action: 2025-02-10
Official status: Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
Effective date: Not listed

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Virtual charter schools; allowing statewide virtual charter schools that reach certain assessment achievements to receive additional funds for certain expenses; effective date; emergency.

What This Bill Does

Virtual charter schools; allowing statewide virtual charter schools that reach certain assessment achievements to receive additional funds for certain expenses; effective date; emergency.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1758 (House): Introduced (2/13/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1758 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (2/21/2025)

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Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1

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Plain English: HB1758 FULLPCS1 Dell Kerbs-SW 2/14/2025 10:34:46 am AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Dell Kerbs Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB1758 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.

HB1758 FULLPCS1 Dell Kerbs-SW 2/14/2025 10:34:46 am AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Dell Kerbs Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB1758 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.
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1758 By: Kerbs PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to charter schools; allowing charter schools that reach certain assessment achievements to receive funds for certain expenses; clarifying funds provided are subject to availability and are in addition to other district funds; construing eligibility calculations; stating an example; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

Bill History

2025-02-10 House
Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
2025-02-04 House
Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget
2025-02-04 House
Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
2025-02-03 House
First Reading
2025-02-03 House
Authored by Representative Kerbs

Official Summary Text

Virtual charter schools; allowing statewide virtual charter schools that reach certain assessment achievements to receive additional funds for certain expenses; effective date; emergency.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1758 (House): Introduced (2/13/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1758 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (2/21/2025)

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1758 By: Kerbs

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to virtual charter schools; allowing
statewide virtual charter schools that reach certain
assessment achievements to receive funds for certain
expenses; clarifying funds provided are in addition
to other district funds; construing eligibility
calculations; stating an example; providing for
codification; providing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3-146 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A statewide virtual charter school that reaches a district
composite academic achievement score within ten (10) points of the
state average composite academic achievement score, as published in
the Oklahoma State Report Card, shall receive One Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($100,000.00) to be used for lease payments, rental
facilities for student testing, transportation, or student services.

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B. The funds described in subsection A of this section shall be
in addition to other funds the district may receive or is eligible
to receive.
C. The composite academic achievement score calculated two
years prior shall be used to determine the current fiscal year's
recipients of the funds described in subsection A of this section.
For example, the composite academic achievement scores for the 2022-
2023 school year shall determine which districts are eligible to
receive the funds for the 2025 fiscal year.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

60-1-10698 SW 01/07/25