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HB3956 • 2026

Higher education; waiver of tuition and fees for permanently disabled veterans; effective date; emergency.

Higher education; waiver of tuition and fees for permanently disabled veterans; effective date; emergency.

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Sponsor
Munson
Last action
2026-02-03
Official status
Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
Effective date
Not listed

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Higher education; waiver of tuition and fees for permanently disabled veterans; effective date; emergency.

Higher education; waiver of tuition and fees for permanently disabled veterans; effective date; emergency.

What This Bill Does

  • Higher education; waiver of tuition and fees for permanently disabled veterans; effective date; emergency.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-03 House

    Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget

  2. 2026-02-03 House

    Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee

  3. 2026-02-02 House

    First Reading

  4. 2026-02-02 House

    Authored by Representative Munson

Official Summary Text

Higher education; waiver of tuition and fees for permanently disabled veterans; effective date; emergency.

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)

HOUSE BILL 3956 By: Munson

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to higher education; waiving tuition
and fees for permanently disabled veterans; 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 3218.7-2 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, no tuition
or fees shall be charged to any person who has been honorably
discharged from active service in any branch of the Armed Forces of
the United States or Oklahoma National Guard and who has been
certified by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or
its successor, to have a one-hundred-percent (100%) permanent
disability sustained through military action or accident or
resulting from disease contracted while in such active service.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2026.

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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.

60-2-15016 AQH 12/29/25