---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Pharmacy; full-time-equivalent employees; updating board names. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "State Board of Pharmacy; full-time-equivalent employees; updating board names. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 73"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 73 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thompson", "Wallace"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4e1b66d-8ee5-4be0-8745-8094bafb4585"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB73&session=2000"
source_hash: "ebe073a4693f3c88d9cc039c3a14dad96e77405dbea54d3e66158530893b17e4"
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 73 (2020) — State Board of Pharmacy; full-time-equivalent employees; updating board names. Effective date. Emergency.

## 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/SB73 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by WALLACE** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB73 FA1 WALLACEKE-JM(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB73 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB73 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB73 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB73 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB73 SFLR.PDF)
8. **SB73 (2-25-19) (THOMPSON) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB73 (2-25-19) (THOMPSON)  RT FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- FOURTH READING — **44–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thompson — primary (person)
- Wallace — 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 Thompson
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Appropriations `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Appr/Sub-Select Agencies `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appr/Sub-Select Agencies sub-committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06** Coauthored by Representative Wallace (principal House author)
- **2019-02-20** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20** Title stricken
- **2019-02-20** Emergency clause stricken
- **2019-03-06** General Order, Amended
- **2019-03-06** Title restored
- **2019-03-06** Emergency clause restored
- **2019-03-06** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-07** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** General Order
- **2019-04-25** House Rule suspended
- **2019-04-25** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 89 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-29** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-29** HAs read
- **2019-04-30** HAs adopted
- **2019-04-30** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-01** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-01** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-01** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** Approved by Governor 05/06/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4e1b66d-8ee5-4be0-8745-8094bafb4585`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).