---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Choices for Long-Term Care Act; requiring certain options counseling relating to admission to a long-term care facility. Effective date."
description: "Oklahoma Choices for Long-Term Care Act; requiring certain options counseling relating to admission to a long-term care facility. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 888"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 888 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bush", "David"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdf8a7bc-8c6a-4666-9d00-aac8d735ccbd"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB888&session=2000"
source_hash: "2ed61006350e94fd36b0e647dcad18ca11131a686f861cdc975e8b585ad91d8f"
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 888 (2020) — Oklahoma Choices for Long-Term Care Act; requiring certain options counseling relating to admission to a long-term care facility. 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/SB888 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by BUSH** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB888 FA1 BUSHCA-SH(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **2 Floor Amendment by HILBERT** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB888 FA2 HILBERTKY-TT.PDF)
4. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB888 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
5. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB888 CA1.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB888 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB888 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB888 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB888 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/SB888 HCS.PDF)
11. **SB888 (3-11-19) (DAVID) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB888 (3-11-19) (DAVID) RT FA1.PDF)
12. **SB888 FULLPCS1 CAROL BUSH-SH.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB888 FULLPCS1 CAROL BUSH-SH.PDF)
13. **SB888 FULLPCS1-AMD1 CAROL BUSH-SH.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB888 FULLPCS1-AMD1 CAROL BUSH-SH.PDF)
14. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB888 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- FOURTH READING — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bush — primary (person)
- David — 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 David
- **2019-02-07** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** Coauthored by Representative Bush (principal House author)
- **2019-02-18** Reported Do Pass as amended Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-18** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20** Title stricken
- **2019-03-12** General Order, Amended
- **2019-03-12** Title restored
- **2019-03-12** Measure passed: Ayes: 44 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 Health Services and Long-Term Care `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Health Services and Long-Term Care Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-24** General Order
- **2019-04-24** House Rule suspended
- **2019-04-24** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-24** Title stricken
- **2019-04-24** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-24** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-25** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-25** HAs read
- **2019-05-06** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2019-05-08** SCs named David, Smalley, Simpson, Daniels, Hicks, Ikley-Freeman
- **2019-05-13** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Health Services and Long-Term Care
- **2019-05-15** CCR read
- **2019-05-16** Title restored
- **2019-05-16** CCR adopted
- **2019-05-16** Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 47 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-16** CCR submitted
- **2019-05-20** CCR adopted
- **2019-05-20** Coauthored by Senator(s) Hicks
- **2019-05-20** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 81 Nays: 10 `passage`
- **2019-05-20** To Senate
- **2019-05-20** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-20** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-20** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-20** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-23** Approved by Governor 05/23/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdf8a7bc-8c6a-4666-9d00-aac8d735ccbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).