State · Oklahoma House of Representatives
Chad Caldwell
State Representative · House District 40 · Party: Republican
1944 final-passage votes on record.
A member of Oklahoma's state House, which votes on the state's laws and budget.
- Voted Yes on HB 4344 (Oklahoma State System of Higher Education; permitting reduction in allocations for payment of annual obligations; effective date.). It passed. Feb 16, 2026
- Voted Yes on HB 3710 (Education; Rising Scholars Award Program; eligibility; cohort-based award schedules; effective date.). It passed. Feb 16, 2026
- Voted Yes on HB 3151 (Schools; length of school year; increasing minimum days of instruction; requiring parent-teacher conferences to have an in-person option; contingent effective date.). It passed. Feb 16, 2026
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Office
- Office
- State Representative
- District
- House District 40
- Party
- Republican
- Term
- Since 2014-11-19
- Website
- Official site ↗
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Last verified Oct 9, 2026.
Official source ↗No platform recorded yet
This tab shows Chad Caldwell's platform in two parts. In their own words: a short excerpt, word for word, from their own Issues or Priorities page, with a link to the whole page, and statements their office submits, labeled as such. Commitments tracked: specific, checkable promises (signing a named bill, funding a program at a stated amount, finishing a project by a date), each quoted with its date and source and checked in code before it's published, with a status that changes only with evidence.
How the platform is recordedShowing every recorded vote. Procedural, amendment, committee, and nomination votes are labeled.
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HB 4344
Oklahoma State System of Higher Education; permitting reduction in allocations for payment of annual obligations; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3710
Education; Rising Scholars Award Program; eligibility; cohort-based award schedules; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3151
Schools; length of school year; increasing minimum days of instruction; requiring parent-teacher conferences to have an in-person option; contingent effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3704
Revenue and taxation; income tax; federal income tax credit; election to participate; scholarship granting organizations; Oklahoma Tax Commission; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 4420
Strong Readers Act; references; legislative findings; reading screenings; reading intervention plans; reading deficiencies; mandatory third grade retention; good cause exemptions; request process; intensive reading intervention; acceleration class; reporting requirements; summer academy programs; teacher training requirements; literacy instructional team; revolving fund; donations; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 1181
Schools; school resource officers; extending pilot program; increasing revolving fund cap; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3706
Education; requiring a minimum amount of math instruction per day and week for kindergarten through fifth grade students; requiring math instruction to align with the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 4478
Schools; school activity fund; requiring certain funds to be deposited at least once per business week; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3031
Economic development and workforce investment; creating the North Pointe Workforce Development Initiative Revolving Fund; source.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 4262
Teachers; annual bonus for teachers with National Board certification; minimum salary schedule; striking National Board certification salary increment; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3025
Schools; general fund expenditures; gift, grant, and donation monies; general fund carryover; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3671
Teachers; definition for career teacher; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3703
Schools; concurrent enrollment; school districts covering cost of tuition waivers; reimbursement for withdrawal; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3698
Unstable housing; Student Eviction Assistance Revolving Fund; Oklahoma State Department of Education; indigent defense; forcible entry and detainer; requirements; report; audit; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3312
Education; public schools; annual instruction on firearm safety; Department of Education; Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 4358
Schools; limiting screen time for prekindergarten through fifth grade public school students to one hour per school day; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 4274
Schools; interdistrict transfers; active duty military families; district of choice; residency; enrollment; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3885
Schools; subjecting certain students in grades three through five to school suspensions; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3076
Teachers; new and innovative pathways toward teacher certification; alternative teacher preparation programs; alternative placement teaching certificates; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3288
Schools; physical education programs; prekindergarten and elementary school; physical education instruction; recess; increases; grades six through twelve; effective date.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 2973
Oklahoma Cost Accounting System; requiring school districts to report all state-appropriated spending using a specific data code; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 4331
Retirement; Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma; dates; member; partial lump sum payments; certified athletic trainer; teaching experience; election or appointment; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3551
Higher education; resident tuition; illegal immigrants; SAVE Program verification; effective date
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 2961
Higher education; TSgt Marshal Dakota Roberts Gold Star Survivor Act; career and technology education; waiver of tuition and fees for the spouse and children of a Gold Star recipient; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 1161
Insurance; health benefit plans; insurance committees; impact analysis; Legislative Service Bureau; Oklahoma Insurance Department; report; effective date.
Third Reading
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3705
Schools; Parental Choice Tax Credit Program; increasing the amount of credits authorized.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3461
Schools; prohibiting school districts from paying certain administrator expenses with State Aid funds; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3261
Schools; requiring State Department of Education to create certain database; requiring school districts to annually submit certain information to the Department; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 4326
Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program; modifying eligibility for certain students; clarifying application time period; modifying definition; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3029
Schools; requiring the State Board of Education to create a four-year plan to address Department programming needs; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
SB 397
State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure; extending sunset date. Effective date. Emergency.
Third Reading
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3429
Career technology; creating Career Technology Business Partnership Pool; obligations; proceeds; definitions; fund; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3372
Charter schools; Revolving Loan Fund Program for Charter School Capital Expenditures; Statewide Charter School Board issuing low-interest loans to charter schools through a revolving fund; Charter School Loan Revolving Fund; appropriation; Charter School Bond Credit Enhancement Program; allowing charter schools to issue bonds; Charter School Bond Credit Enhancement Fund; interest allocation; default; special obligations; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3759
Revenue and taxation; excise boards; school districts; temporary allocations; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3674
Schools; school resource officer program; sexual assault reporting; continuing law enforcement training; CLEET; certification; sexual assault and sexual violence training; effective date.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3019
Schools; phasing in a reduction to the maximum number of students allowed per class in kindergarten through fifth grades; exceptions; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 2963
Higher education; Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program; removing ACT test requirement; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3069
Schools; option to submit charter school applications to sponsors or to the school district; effective date; emergency.
Appropriations And Budget Education Subcommittee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3467
Education employees; maternity leave; adoption; purpose; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3032
Schools; prohibiting minor children from being enrolled in school unless a parent or guardian fills out an application for free or reduced-price meals; opt out; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
No Source ↗ -
HB 4359
Schools; requiring statewide assessments to be held in the last four weeks of each school year; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 2978
Schools; library media program; community standards; sexually explicit conduct; effective date.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs
Yes Source ↗ -
Yes Source ↗
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HB 4115
Teachers; professional development hours; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 3026
Schools; requiring school districts to set different kindergarten age requirements for international military dependents; effective date; emergency.
Common Education Committee: Do Pass
Yes Source ↗ -
SB 804
Long-term care; directing promulgation of specified rules; requiring assisted living centers to establish internal quality assurance committee. Effective date.
Veto Override Without Emer.
Yes Source ↗ -
SB 713
Wind energy facilities; requiring newly established facilities to apply for certain technology system by certain date; providing for certain cost recovery. Effective date.
Veto Override Without Emer.
Yes Source ↗ -
HB 2374
Revenue and taxation; Filmed in Oklahoma Act of 2021; procedures for withholding tax; income tax treatment; set aside amount for economic impact reviews; effective date; emergency.
Veto Override With Emer.
Not voting Source ↗ -
HB 2584
Physicians assistants; Pharmacy Act; prescriptions for controlled dangerous substances; Physician Assistant Act; Committee; members; requirements; Public Health Code; authority for physician assistants to carry out certain functions; prescribing and administering controlled substances; supervision.
Veto Override Without Emer.
Yes Source ↗ -
SB 574
Attorney General; broadening approved purposes for opioid grant awards; authorizing certain use of funds by the Attorney General. Effective date.
Veto Override Without Emer.
Yes Source ↗
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