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HB2973 • 2026
Oklahoma Cost Accounting System; requiring school districts to report all state-appropriated spending using a specific data code; effective date.
Oklahoma Cost Accounting System; requiring school districts to report all state-appropriated spending using a specific data code; effective date.
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- Sponsor
- Hays
- Last action
- 2026-03-16
- Official status
- Motion expired
- Effective date
- Not listed
Plain English Breakdown
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Oklahoma Cost Accounting System; requiring school districts to report all state-appropriated spending using a specific data code; effective date.
Oklahoma Cost Accounting System; requiring school districts to report all state-appropriated spending using a specific data code; effective date.
What This Bill Does
- Oklahoma Cost Accounting System; requiring school districts to report all state-appropriated spending using a specific data code; effective date.
- Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2973 (House): Introduced (2/9/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2973 (House): Committee Amendment 1 (3/3/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2973 (House): Committee Substitute (3/10/2026)
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Amendments
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Plain English: HB2973 FULLAMD1 Trey Caldwell-JM
3/3/2026 2:35:59 pm
AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS
Amendment submitted by: Trey Caldwell
Adopted: _____________________________
______________________________________
Reading Clerk
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
State of Oklahoma
SPEAKER:
CHAIR:
I move to amend HB2973
Of the printed Bill
Page 2 Section 2 and 3 Lines 6 - 10
Of the Engrossed Bill
By deleting the word "July" on line 6 and by inserting in lieu thereof the
word "November"; and
By deleting Section 3 in its entirety.
- HB2973 FULLAMD1 Trey Caldwell-JM
3/3/2026 2:35:59 pm
AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS
Amendment submitted by: Trey Caldwell
Adopted: _____________________________
______________________________________
Reading Clerk
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
State of Oklahoma
SPEAKER:
CHAIR:
I move to amend HB2973
Of the printed Bill
Page 2 Section 2 and 3 Lines 6 - 10
Of the Engrossed Bill
By deleting the word "July" on line 6 and by inserting in lieu thereof the
word "November"; and
By deleting Section 3 in its entirety.
Bill History
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2026-03-16
House
Motion expired
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2026-03-11
House
General Order
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2026-03-11
House
Third Reading, Measure failed: Ayes: 25 Nays: 67
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2026-03-11
House
Notice served to reconsider vote by Representative Hays
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2026-03-05
House
CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee
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2026-03-05
House
Authored by Senator Logan (principal Senate author)
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2026-03-05
House
Emergency removed
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2026-02-09
House
Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
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2026-02-03
House
Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget
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2026-02-03
House
Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
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2026-02-02
House
First Reading
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2026-02-02
House
Authored by Representative Hays
Official Summary Text
Oklahoma Cost Accounting System; requiring school districts to report all state-appropriated spending using a specific data code; effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2973 (House): Introduced (2/9/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2973 (House): Committee Amendment 1 (3/3/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 2973 (House): Committee Substitute (3/10/2026)
Current Bill Text
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 2973 By: Hays of the House
and
Logan of the Senate
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Cost Accounting
System; requiring school districts to report all
state-appropriated spending using a specific data
code; directing the State Board of Education to adopt
a data code in compliance with the required
reporting; prohibiting the use of the adopted data
code for any other type of funding; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.
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 5-135.5 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year and each school
year thereafter, every public school district shall, in addition to
any other applicable data code, use a data code in the Oklahoma Cost
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Accounting System, adopted by the State Board of Education, to
report the expenditure of any state-appropriated funding for any
purpose by the public school district.
B. The State Board of Education shall adopt a data code for the
Oklahoma Cost Accounting System which shall be used to comply with
the reporting required by this section. The adopted data code shall
not be used for any expenditures that are not paid for using state-
appropriated funds.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET, dated
03/05/2026 - DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.