---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Human Services; requiring employee background checks to include certain national record check. Effective date."
description: "Department of Human Services; requiring employee background checks to include certain national record check. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 45"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 45 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stanley", "Talley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95bd500f-fd84-4ab2-b717-9de4ea1bf025"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB45&session=2100"
source_hash: "9d19314c61fb7e3f90a521e6d585ecec0a678564ccdaf2f118c89ef18a97cfe7"
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 45 (2021) — Department of Human Services; requiring employee background checks to include certain national record check. 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/2021-22 INT/SB/SB45 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB45 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB45 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB45 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB45 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Stanley — primary (person)
- Talley — 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 Senator Stanley
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Appropriations `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Appr/Sub-Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Coauthored by Representative Bush (principal House author)
- **2021-02-10** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appr/Sub-Health and Human Services sub-committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** remove as principal author Representative Bush and substitute with Representative Talley
- **2021-02-18** coauthored by Bush
- **2021-03-03** Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2021-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-15** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-15** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to Children, Youth and Family Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** CR; Do Pass Children, Youth and Family Services Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12** General Order
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-04-12** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-04-13** Enrolled, to House
- **2021-04-13** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-04-13** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-19** Approved by Governor 04/19/2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95bd500f-fd84-4ab2-b717-9de4ea1bf025`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).