HB 2895 Oklahoma House · 2025 Regular Session

Children; Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing Act; time period; appoint; required; teachers; effective date.

HB 2895 amends the Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing Act, impacting child care centers, their directors, and master teachers. The bill clarifies that a bachelor's or postgraduate degree meets educational requirements for a director and allows a one-year probationary period for new master teachers to fulfill qualifications. Directors are granted 60 days to appoint a probationary master teacher. It also specifies square footage requirements for infants in child care rooms, differentiating between facilities opened before and after November 1, 2016. Finally, after-school care children will not be counted when determining the number of required master teachers based on license capacity.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Apr 23, 2025

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What changed between versions

Floor (House) → Floor (Senate) · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended during Senate review to update formatting, clarify committee amendment notation, and adjust the effective date from February 2025 to November 1, 2025. The core policy provisions regarding childcare licensing requirements remain substantively unchanged.

Scope change

None. The substantive scope of the bill remains the same; changes are primarily procedural and formatting-related.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the act was changed from February 26, 2025 to November 1, 2025.

TECHNICAL

Header formatting was updated to reflect Senate floor version with revised page numbering and committee amendment notation instructions.

Committee report date was updated from February 26, 2025 to April 21, 2025 to reflect Senate floor action.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Apr 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported Do Pass as amended Health and Human Services committee; CR filed

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

Engrossed, signed, to Senate

lower

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred for engrossment

lower

Mar 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 0

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

CR; Do Pass Health and Human Services Oversight Committee

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Policy recommendation to the Health and Human Services Oversight committee; Do Pass Children, Youth and Family Services

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to Children, Youth and Family Services

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to Health and Human Services Oversight

lower

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors