---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; defining short-term, limited-duration insurance; providing benefit limitations for certain policies. Effective date."
description: "Insurance; defining short-term, limited-duration insurance; providing benefit limitations for certain policies. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 993"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 993 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dahm", "Moore"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8a599cb-c2fc-49f2-b69b-3f38c13f5ccd"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB993&session=2000"
source_hash: "6afbeafa2914f5062e578bd543333a8b80bae71437150e678857063989085fa9"
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 993 (2020) — Insurance; defining short-term, limited-duration insurance; providing benefit limitations for certain policies. 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/SB993 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB993 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB993 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB993 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB993 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB993 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB993 HCS.PDF)
8. **SB993 FULLAMD1 LEWIS MOORE-SH.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB993 FULLAMD1 LEWIS MOORE-SH.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **36–10** (pass) · upper
- FOURTH READING — **36–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dahm — primary (person)
- Moore — 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 Dahm
- **2019-02-11** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Reported Do Pass Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** Coauthored by Representative Moore (principal House author)
- **2019-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2019-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 10 `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 Insurance `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-04** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Insurance Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-17** General Order
- **2019-04-17** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 72 Nays: 22 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-04-18** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-22** HAs read
- **2019-05-13** HAs adopted
- **2019-05-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 10 `passage`
- **2019-05-13** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-05-14** Enrolled, to House
- **2019-05-14** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2019-05-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16** Approved by Governor 05/16/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8a599cb-c2fc-49f2-b69b-3f38c13f5ccd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).