---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care; long-term care; facilities; residents; visitation; health care providers; State Department of Health; emergency."
description: "Health care; long-term care; facilities; residents; visitation; health care providers; State Department of Health; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2566"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2566 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "McCortney"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2add3156-6295-499d-95d2-7c8214560053"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2566&session=2100"
source_hash: "d1341c3a8e34c720d5d72f9c8e4a3876502a9b6c87db860b44fb027b4ff62926"
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 HB 2566 (2021) — Health care; long-term care; facilities; residents; visitation; health care providers; State Department of Health; 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/2021-22 INT/hB/HB2566 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by CALDWELL (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB2566 FA1 CALDWELLCH-AB(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/hB/HB2566 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/hB/HB2566 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/HB2566 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/HB2566 SFLR.PDF)
7. **HB2566 FULLAMD1 CHAD CALDWELL-AB.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB2566 FULLAMD1 CHAD CALDWELL-AB.PDF)
8. **HB2566 FULLAMD2 CHAD CALDWELL-AB.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB2566 FULLAMD2 CHAD CALDWELL-AB.PDF)
9. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB2566 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- McCortney — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-02-01** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Authored by Representative Caldwell (Chad)
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Health Services and Long-Term Care `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Health Services and Long-Term Care Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Coauthored by Representative(s) Davis, West (Tammy), Stark
- **2021-02-18** Emergency added
- **2021-03-09** General Order
- **2021-03-09** Coauthored by Representative(s) Conley, Dills, Boles, Lepak, Russ
- **2021-03-09** Authored by Senator McCortney (principal Senate author)
- **2021-03-09** House Rule suspended
- **2021-03-09** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 95 Nays: 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-10** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-10** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-17** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Coauthored by Senator Allen
- **2021-04-12** Remove as coauthor Senator Allen
- **2021-04-12** Coauthored by Senator Bergstrom
- **2021-04-21** General Order, Considered
- **2021-04-21** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-04-22** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2021-04-22** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2021-04-22** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-27** Approved by Governor 04/27/2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2add3156-6295-499d-95d2-7c8214560053`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).