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Read. Follow. Verify.Oklahoma HB 1521 updates high school graduation requirements, adds personal financial literacy rules, and creates an alternate diploma option
Last action · May 29, 2025: To Senate
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What This Bill Proposed
Oklahoma House Bill 1521 revises public high school graduation requirements by updating curriculum units, integrating personal financial literacy into coursework or Advanced Placement classes, and permitting an alternate diploma for students with significant cognitive disabilities starting July 1, 2025.
Changes curriculum mandates, diploma eligibility pathways, and course options for public high school students across the state, impacting how districts structure credit tracking and course offerings.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
public high school students
Students must complete updated curriculum units and are permitted to fulfill personal financial literacy via qualifying Advanced Placement courses.
students with the most significant cognitive disabilities
Students are eligible to receive a standards-based alternate diploma and continue receiving FAPE services until reaching the maximum age limit.
school districts
Districts must offer sufficient courses meeting updated graduation requirements, track alternate diplomas, and notify the state regarding locally approved application courses.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can an Advanced Placement course fulfill the personal financial literacy requirement?
Does receiving an alternate diploma end a student's Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
What is the effective date of HB 1521?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Vetoed by the governor.
Procedural history
33 actions- May 29, 2025HouseTo Senate
- May 29, 2025HouseVeto overridden: Ayes: 78 Nays: 0
- May 28, 2025HouseVetoed 05/28/2025
- May 22, 2025HouseSent to Governor
- May 22, 2025HouseEnrolled, signed, to Senate
- May 22, 2025SenateEnrolled measure signed, returned to House
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- May 21, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred for enrollment
- May 21, 2025HouseFourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 0
- May 21, 2025HouseFloorSA's read, adopted
- May 8, 2025HouseSA's received
- May 8, 2025SenateEngrossed to House
- May 7, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred for engrossment
- May 7, 2025SenateMeasure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0
- May 7, 2025SenateTitle restored
- May 7, 2025SenateGeneral Order, Amended
- Apr 24, 2025SenatePlaced on General Order
- Apr 22, 2025SenateFloorReported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed
- Apr 1, 2025SenateCommitteeSecond Reading referred to Education
- Mar 31, 2025SenateIntroducedFirst Reading
- Mar 31, 2025HouseEngrossed, signed, to Senate
- Mar 27, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred for engrossment
- Mar 27, 2025HouseThird Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 4
- Mar 27, 2025HouseTitle stricken
- Mar 27, 2025HouseAmended
- Mar 27, 2025HouseAmended by floor substitute
- Mar 27, 2025HouseGeneral Order
- Mar 5, 2025HouseAuthored by Senator Pugh (principal Senate author)
- Mar 5, 2025HouseFloorCR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee
- Feb 17, 2025HouseFloorPolicy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Common Education
- Feb 4, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Common Education
- Feb 4, 2025HouseCommitteeSecond Reading referred to Education Oversight
- Feb 3, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative Lowe (Dick)
- Feb 3, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst Reading
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Sources
www.oklegislature.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance65How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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