---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; Insurance Business Plan Transfer Act; application procedures; reporting; court implementation order; business transfer. Effective date."
description: "Insurance; Insurance Business Plan Transfer Act; application procedures; reporting; court implementation order; business transfer. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 885"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 885 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paxton", "Sims"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf5aac5d-7301-4606-b913-b3974667e8db"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB885&session=2000"
source_hash: "039e262e8938b61581f42d8883c51760304447c50f6474ae0e1f3a9b08c1e3d5"
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 885 (2020) — Insurance; Insurance Business Plan Transfer Act; application procedures; reporting; court implementation order; business transfer. 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/SB885 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by SIMS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB885 FA1 SIMSLO-SH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB885 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
4. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB885 PCS.PDF)
5. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB885 ENGR.PDF)
6. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB885 ENR.PDF)
7. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB885 HFLR.PDF)
8. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB885 SFLR.PDF)
9. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB885 HCS.PDF)
10. **SB885 (2-25-19) (PAXTON) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB885 (2-25-19) (PAXTON) RT FA1.PDF)
11. **SB885 FULLPCS1 LONNIE SIMS-SH.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB885 FULLPCS1 LONNIE SIMS-SH.PDF)
12. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB885 CS.PDF)

## Votes

- FOURTH READING — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **42–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Paxton — primary (person)
- Sims — 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 Paxton
- **2019-02-07** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance Committee then to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-18** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20** Title stricken
- **2019-02-20** Coauthored by Representative Sims (principal House author)
- **2019-02-27** General Order, Amended
- **2019-02-27** Title restored
- **2019-02-27** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-02-28** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2019-02-28** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading referred to Insurance `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Insurance Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-16** General Order
- **2019-04-16** House Rule suspended
- **2019-04-16** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-16** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-17** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-17** HAs read
- **2019-05-07** HAs adopted
- **2019-05-07** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-08** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-08** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-08** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-14** Approved by Governor 05/14/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf5aac5d-7301-4606-b913-b3974667e8db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).