---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; prohibiting Insurance Commissioner from having financial interest in entity regulated by the Insurance Department. Effective date."
description: "Insurance; prohibiting Insurance Commissioner from having financial interest in entity regulated by the Insurance Department. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1245"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1245 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quinn", "Russ"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61e4dec2-9f20-49b9-b775-9c0beef4392c"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1245&session=2200"
source_hash: "0e47cfad88f02d8afcbfccde5bc567815d11eb3525e912517aa117cb53da8427"
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 1245 (2022) — Insurance; prohibiting Insurance Commissioner from having financial interest in entity regulated by the Insurance Department. 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/SB1245 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB1245 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB1245 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB1245 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB1245 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Quinn — primary (person)
- Russ — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Authored by Senator Quinn
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Reported Do Pass Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Coauthored by Senator Jett
- **2022-02-10** Coauthored by Representative Russ (principal House author)
- **2022-03-07** General Order, Considered
- **2022-03-07** Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-03-08** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2022-03-08** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-28** Second Reading referred to Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** CR; Do Pass Insurance Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-28** General Order
- **2022-04-28** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-28** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-28** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-05-02** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-05-02** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-05-02** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-03** Approved by Governor 05/03/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61e4dec2-9f20-49b9-b775-9c0beef4392c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).