---
type: "Bill"
title: "Childbirth; declaring certain rights of patients; directing facilities to maintain written stillbirth or fetal death event disposition policy. Effective date."
description: "Childbirth; declaring certain rights of patients; directing facilities to maintain written stillbirth or fetal death event disposition policy. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 284"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 284 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bice", "Roberts (Sean)"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54278151-01cb-4156-89d8-f5d9f7e05c7a"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB284&session=2000"
source_hash: "12dffc18031ec5c30c7f3d1a8e91a77435ce435a3035f52afdb0bd19f6374350"
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 284 (2020) — Childbirth; declaring certain rights of patients; directing facilities to maintain written stillbirth or fetal death event disposition policy. Effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 INT/SB/SB284 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by ALBRIGHT** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB284 FA1 ALBRIGHTKE-SD.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB284 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB284 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB284 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB284 SFLR.PDF)
7. **SB284 (3-06-19) (BICE) FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB284 (3-06-19) (BICE) FA2.PDF)
8. **SB284 (3-06-19) (BICE) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB284 (3-06-19) (BICE) RT FA1.PDF)
9. **SB284 (3-06-19) (BICE) RT FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB284 (3-06-19) (BICE) RT FA2.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bice — primary (person)
- Roberts (Sean) — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-04** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Authored by Senator Bice
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Reported Do Pass as amended Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** Title stricken
- **2019-02-28** Coauthored by Representative Roberts (Sean) (principal House author)
- **2019-03-13** General Order, Amended
- **2019-03-13** Title restored
- **2019-03-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-03-13** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-14** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Public Health `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-02** CR; Do Pass Public Health Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-16** General Order
- **2019-04-16** Coauthored by Representative(s) Grego
- **2019-04-16** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 83 Nays: 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-04-16** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-04-17** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-04-17** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-04-17** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-23** Approved by Governor 04/23/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54278151-01cb-4156-89d8-f5d9f7e05c7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).