---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home care; allowing certain individuals to assist with self-administration of certain medications. Effective date."
description: "Home care; allowing certain individuals to assist with self-administration of certain medications. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 388"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 388 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "Hall"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59b625d4-bb8a-43d3-b879-ecc90765215c"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB388&session=2000"
source_hash: "4dfe884c4a2f4fecfac40e54e673cd3b1ee4960ea007871195f070b656af75e9"
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 388 (2020) — Home care; allowing certain individuals to assist with self-administration of certain medications. 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/SB388 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB388 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB388 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB388 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB388 SFLR.PDF)
6. **SB388 (2-25-19) (MCCORTNEY) FS FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB388 (2-25-19) (MCCORTNEY) FS FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- Hall — 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 McCortney
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad) (principal House author)
- **2019-03-06** Remove as author Senator McCortney; authored by Senator Hall
- **2019-03-06** Coauthored by Senator McCortney
- **2019-03-11** General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
- **2019-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Health Services and Long-Term Care `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-10** CR; Do Pass Health Services and Long-Term Care Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-22** General Order
- **2019-04-22** Coauthored by Representative(s) Fugate
- **2019-04-22** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 97 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-22** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-04-23** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-04-24** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-04-24** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-04-24** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-29** Approved by Governor 04/29/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59b625d4-bb8a-43d3-b879-ecc90765215c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).