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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request. Effective date."
+description: "Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request. Effective date."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
+legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 253"
+citation: "Oklahoma SB 253 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hines", "Stinson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc67620e-7c71-4ca5-aad3-e184c953b8b8"
+source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB253&session=2600"
+source_hash: "ce02924ebde9fac97d5c92dfd14b6366d2ed6de1c0e25452e86ff5a04031e4b1"
+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 SB 253 (2026) — Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request. 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/SB/SB253 INT.PDF)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB253 ENGR.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB253 ENR.PDF)
+4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB253 HFLR.PDF)
+5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB253 SFLR.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Appropriations And Budget Health Subcommittee: Do Pass — **4–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass — **28–0** (pass) · lower
+- Health & Human Services — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hines — primary (person)
+- Stinson — 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 Senator Hines
+- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04** Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
+- **2025-03-03** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-05** Placed on General Order
+- **2025-03-10** General Order, Considered
+- **2025-03-10** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Referred for engrossment
+- **2025-03-11** Engrossed to House `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Coauthored by Representative(s) Osburn
+- **2025-05-07** General Order
+- **2025-05-07** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-07** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-05-07** Referred for enrollment
+- **2025-05-08** Enrolled, to House
+- **2025-05-08** Signed, returned to Senate
+- **2025-05-08** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-15** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc67620e-7c71-4ca5-aad3-e184c953b8b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).
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