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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act; opt-out option; removing group insurance; effective date."
+description: "Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act; opt-out option; removing group insurance; effective date."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
+legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 1187"
+citation: "Oklahoma HB 1187 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burns", "West (Rick)"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63c7ba2f-fcf3-40da-a5a8-9bae12a145f5"
+source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1187&session=2600"
+source_hash: "c22a2a5dddfd83995ad7276ea15bc6a904613479f8250bfe61135b57292e82a1"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ok"]
+---
+
+# Oklahoma HB 1187 (2026) — Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act; opt-out option; removing group insurance; effective date.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/hB/HB1187 INT.PDF)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1187 ENGR.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1187 ENR.PDF)
+4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1187 HFLR.PDF)
+5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1187 SFLR.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Insurance Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **35–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burns — primary (person)
+- West (Rick) — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Authored by Representative West (Rick)
+- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Insurance `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-12** Authored by Senator Burns (principal Senate author)
+- **2025-02-27** CR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-25** General Order
+- **2025-03-25** Coauthored by Representative(s) Menz, Townley
+- **2025-03-25** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 93 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-25** Referred for engrossment
+- **2025-03-26** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
+- **2025-03-26** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** Reported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Placed on General Order
+- **2025-04-28** General Order, Considered
+- **2025-04-28** Coauthored by Senator Hamilton
+- **2025-04-28** Measure passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 9 `passage`
+- **2025-04-28** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
+- **2025-04-28** Referred for enrollment
+- **2025-04-29** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
+- **2025-04-29** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
+- **2025-04-29** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/03/2025 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63c7ba2f-fcf3-40da-a5a8-9bae12a145f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).
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