---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act; providing certain provisions relating to confidential investigative records. Effective date."
description: "Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act; providing certain provisions relating to confidential investigative records. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 81 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newton", "Simpson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/407c2e97-6047-46ce-84cb-098495035f01"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB81&session=2000"
source_hash: "c387306293910c2b3243c8de648a40397a870f7b27efe7b316f717859965de44"
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 81 (2020) — Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act; providing certain provisions relating to confidential investigative records. 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/SB81 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB81 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB81 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB81 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB81 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Newton — primary (person)
- Simpson — 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 Simpson
- **2019-02-04** Coauthored by Representative Hardin (Tommy) (principal House author)
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-14** remove as principal author Representative Hardin (Tommy) and substitute with Representative Newton
- **2019-02-25** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2019-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 47 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 Judiciary `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-02** CR; Do Pass Judiciary Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-23** General Order
- **2019-04-23** Coauthored by Representative(s) Roe
- **2019-04-23** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23** 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/407c2e97-6047-46ce-84cb-098495035f01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).