Oklahoma set one deadline for every district in the state, and it passed on July 1, 2026. The clock that starts now is the five-year re-assessment.
THE REQUIREMENT
Oklahoma set a single deadline and it has now passed. Under 70 O.S. 5-148.3, every school district in the state was required to undergo a risk and vulnerability assessment by July 1, 2026, conducted by the Oklahoma School Security Institute or a nationally qualified assessor, with recommendations to increase security on district property. Re-assessments follow every five years. The statute prescribes no exterior-door inspection, no door log, no locked-door condition, and no door-monitoring hardware.
The duty runs to the district, not to each school building. That is a meaningful difference from states that assess every school, and it means a district assessment can recommend improvements without ever producing a per-building door record.
There is one exemption. A district that completed a qualifying assessment in the two years before the act took effect was exempt from the initial requirement, though the five-year re-assessment cycle still applies once an assessment is done.
Each row below is quoted from the enrolled text of SB 100 (2023) and HB 4073 (2024). Together they show a state that will fund a door and never ask about it again.
| Provision | What it says | What it does not say |
|---|---|---|
| The deadline | "by July 1, 2026, each school district in this state shall undergo a risk and vulnerability assessment conducted by the Oklahoma School Security Institute or a nationally qualified risk and vulnerability assessor" | Nothing about which parts of a building the assessment must cover |
| The output | "The assessment shall include recommendations to increase security on school district property" | Recommendations, not requirements. Nothing obliges a district to act on them |
| The cycle | "After an initial risk and vulnerability assessment is conducted, school districts shall conduct re-assessments every five (5) years" | Nothing about the four years and 364 days between them |
| The money | Fund expenditures for "physical security enhancements for schools including, but not limited to, school resource officers, cameras, gates, lighting, locks, doors, windows, security geofencing, and ballistic storm shelters, and mobile panic alert systems" | Door monitoring is not named. The list is expressly not exhaustive, so it is not excluded either |
SCOPE OF THE RULE
One assessment per district by July 1, 2026, conducted by the Oklahoma School Security Institute or a nationally qualified assessor, producing recommendations to increase security on district property.
Then a re-assessment every five years.
No exterior-door inspection, no door log, no locked-door condition, and no monitoring hardware. The assessment recommends; it does not prescribe.
Because the duty is district-level, nothing guarantees a per-building record of door condition exists at all.
The Oklahoma School Security Institute conducts or receives the assessments. Completion of an assessment and use of its recommendations are tied to eligibility for school security grant funding.
No express statutory penalty applies. The consequence for skipping the assessment is financial, through grant eligibility, rather than punitive.
SB 100, enacted in 2023, created the assessment duty and its July 1, 2026 deadline. That date has now passed, which makes the five-year re-assessment the live clock for every district.
HB 4073, effective July 1, 2024, set what the School Security Revolving Fund may pay for. Money from the fund must supplement and not supplant existing school security funding.
BETWEEN ASSESSMENTS
An assessment captures door condition on the day it happens. Continuous monitoring covers the days in between, which is where propped and held-open doors actually occur.
A five-year interval is the longest in this group. Monitoring adds continuous open-or-closed status on every monitored door plus a time-stamped event log, which is what gives the next assessment something to read rather than a memory of the last one.
A contact sensor proves that a door is closed. It never proves that the door is latched or locked.
Monitoring is not a risk and vulnerability assessment and does not satisfy 70 O.S. 5-148.3.
Learn about door monitoring, or return to the school door security guide.
These answers separate the deadline, the five-year cycle, what the fund covers, and what the statute never addresses.
No. Oklahoma has no statewide requirement that school exterior doors stay locked during the school day, and no requirement to inspect, log, or monitor them. What the state requires is a district-level risk and vulnerability assessment, which produces recommendations rather than a door standard.
July 1, 2026. Under 70 O.S. 5-148.3, added by SB 100 in 2023, each school district in the state had to undergo a risk and vulnerability assessment by that date, conducted by the Oklahoma School Security Institute or a nationally qualified risk and vulnerability assessor. A district that completed a qualifying assessment in the two years before the act took effect was exempt from the initial requirement.
Every five years. The statute provides that after an initial risk and vulnerability assessment is conducted, school districts shall conduct re-assessments every five years. Note that the duty runs to the district, not to each individual school building.
The fund may be expended for establishing and maintaining a School Resource Officer Program, and for providing physical security enhancements for schools including, but not limited to, school resource officers, cameras, gates, lighting, locks, doors, windows, security geofencing, ballistic storm shelters, and mobile panic alert systems. The list is expressly not exhaustive. Fund money must supplement and not supplant existing school security funding.
No express statutory penalty applies. The consequence is financial rather than punitive: the Oklahoma School Security Institute conducts or receives the assessments, and completion of an assessment and use of its recommendations are tied to eligibility for school security grant funding.