---
type: "Bill"
title: "Opioid drugs; requiring continuing education courses for certain professions; requiring the Insurance Department to conduct certain study; requiring Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control to submit certain report. Emergency."
description: "Opioid drugs; requiring continuing education courses for certain professions; requiring the Insurance Department to conduct certain study; requiring Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control to submit certain report. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 848"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 848 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Echols", "Rader"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4f7146a-f734-478e-a985-e2e80a19d4f3"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB848&session=2000"
source_hash: "5a9bbf81ef07f3287f14b18fe4c9ccae164e2c48549988bc584d8e925c156c71"
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 848 (2020) — Opioid drugs; requiring continuing education courses for certain professions; requiring the Insurance Department to conduct certain study; requiring Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control to submit certain report. 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/SB848 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Amendment to Amendment by ECHOLS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB848 FA1-A1 ECHOLSJO-SH.PDF)
3. **1 Floor Amendment by ECHOLS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB848 FA1 ECHOLSJO-SH.PDF)
4. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB848 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
5. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB848 PCS.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB848 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB848 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB848 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB848 SFLR.PDF)
10. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB848 HCS.PDF)
11. **SB848 (3-11-19) (RADER) FS FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB848 (3-11-19) (RADER) FS FA1.PDF)
12. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB848 CS.PDF)
13. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB848 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- FOURTH READING — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Echols — primary (person)
- Rader — 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 Rader
- **2019-02-07** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Title stricken
- **2019-03-04** Coauthored by Representative Echols (principal House author)
- **2019-03-12** General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
- **2019-03-12** Emergency added
- **2019-03-12** Emergency clause stricken
- **2019-03-12** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-03-12** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-03-13** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-03-13** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Public Health `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Public Health Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Title restored
- **2019-04-11** Emergency restored
- **2019-04-24** General Order
- **2019-04-24** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-24** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 94 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-24** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-25** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-25** HAs read
- **2019-05-01** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2019-05-07** SCs named Rader, Smalley, McCortney, Scott, Young, Hicks
- **2019-05-08** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Rules
- **2019-05-13** CCR read
- **2019-05-14** CCR adopted
- **2019-05-14** Measure and Emergency passed, to House: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-14** CCR submitted
- **2019-05-15** CCR adopted
- **2019-05-15** Coauthored by Senator(s) Sharp
- **2019-05-15** Fourth Reading, Measure and Emergency Passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-15** To Senate
- **2019-05-15** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-16** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-16** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-16** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-21** Approved by Governor 05/21/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4f7146a-f734-478e-a985-e2e80a19d4f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).