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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1292 By: Hicks
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the State Department of Education;
directing the Department to establish and maintain
the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program; defining
terms; providing for assessment of participating
students; requiring electronic reporting of
assessment results; directing priority for
participation to be given to certain school
districts; directing certain high dosage tutors to be
awarded certain bonus amounts based on certain
criteria; providing for conditional participation for
a high dosage tutor who fails to achieve certain
growth in certain cohort; providing for loss of
program eligibility; requiring certain written
consent for students to participate; allowing for
removal of students from participation under certain
circumstances; providing for promulgation of rules;
creating the High Dosage Tutoring Revolving Fund;
specifying sources of fund; providing for
expenditures; providing purpose of fund; 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 1210.508J of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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A. The State Department of Education shall establish and
maintain the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program to provide
tutoring in the subject of reading to students in grades
prekindergarten through three.
B. For the purposes of this section:
1. “Cohort” means a student or group of students of no more
than five who receive subject-specific high dosage tutoring in
reading and are at least one-half grade level behind in reading
prior to participating in the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program;
and
2. “High dosage tutoring” means in-person, subject-specific
tutoring conducted by an individual employed by or contracted with a
school district participating in the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring
Program after school hours for a minimum of three one-hour sessions
per week per cohort. Tutoring shall be conducted during a minimum
of ten (10) weeks in the fall semester and a minimum of twelve (12)
weeks in the spring semester.
C. 1. Participating school districts shall assess
prekindergarten through third grade students participating in high
dosage reading tutoring using the screening instrument required by
Section 1210.508C of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes to track
academic growth.
2. Results of screening instruments administered pursuant to
this subsection shall be electronically reported to the State
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Department of Education three times a year at intervals determined
by the Department.
D. The State Department of Education shall give priority for
participation in the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring Program to school
districts federally designated for additional targeted support and
improvement or comprehensive support and improvement under the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as reauthorized by
P.L. No. 114-95, also known as the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Participation in the program shall be approved on a first-come,
first-served basis without any limitation other than the amount of
funds available for the program and the number of school districts
that apply.
E. High dosage tutors employed by or contracted with public
school districts participating in the Oklahoma High Dosage Tutoring
Program shall be awarded bonuses in the following amounts:
1. One Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($1,600.00) for each cohort
educated by a high dosage tutor per semester; and
2. One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each academic grade
level increase in reading that each student within a cohort
experiences within one academic year.
F. 1. If the students in a high dosage tutor’s cohort do not
improve by at least half a grade level in reading within the first
year of the program, the tutor shall be placed on a conditional one-
year term of participation.
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2. If the students in a high dosage tutor’s cohort fail to
achieve half a grade level of growth during the one-year conditional
term of participation, he or she shall lose eligibility to
participate in the program. A tutor who loses eligibility pursuant
to this paragraph may be reconsidered as a high dosage tutor after
two years.
3. If the students in a high dosage tutor’s cohort achieve half
a grade level of growth during the one-year conditional term of
participation, the tutor’s conditional status shall be lifted.
G. High dosage tutors shall be provided the necessary
information for each student’s academic performance level in
reading, as determined by the student’s current teacher.
H. 1. School districts participating in the Oklahoma High
Dosage Tutoring Program shall obtain written consent from a
student’s parent or legal guardian prior to allowing the student to
participate in high dosage tutoring.
2. If a student participating in high dosage tutoring fails to
attend a tutoring session, the tutor shall notify the student’s
school district, and the school district shall notify the student’s
parent or legal guardian.
3. If the parent or legal guardian of a student participating
in high dosage tutoring no longer wishes for the student to
participate, a student fails to attend nine high dosage tutoring
sessions during a semester, or a student’s behavior during tutoring
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sessions requires disciplinary action, the student may be removed
from the cohort. The performance of a student subject to the
provisions of this paragraph shall not count against the high dosage
tutor.
I. The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules to
implement the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1210.508K of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund
for the State Department of Education to be designated the “High
Dosage Tutoring Revolving Fund”. The fund shall be a continuing
fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of
all monies received by the State Department of Education from gifts,
grants, donations, bequests, federal funds provided for the purpose
of funding high dosage tutoring, or state appropriations provided
for the purpose of implementing the provisions of Section 1 of this
act. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby
appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the State
Department of Education for the purpose provided for in this
section. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants
issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by
law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
Services for approval and payment.
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SECTION 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 2026.
SECTION 4. 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.
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