---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals; defining rural emergency hospital. Effective date."
description: "Hospitals; defining rural emergency hospital. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 293"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 293 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burns", "Hall"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e476c90-e633-4a3c-9986-500c337106fe"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB293&session=2300"
source_hash: "da0d7baa5b53568818cae22b18285bd829bb267680ccd77a85d2597d30a5d5d5"
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 293 (2023) — Hospitals; defining rural emergency hospital. 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB293 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB293 CA1.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB293 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB293 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB293 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB293 SFLR.PDF)
7. **SB293 (2-28-23) (HALL) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB293 (2-28-23) (HALL) RT FA1.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Burns — primary (person)
- Hall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Authored by Senator Hall
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Title stricken
- **2023-02-27** Coauthored by Representative Burns (principal House author)
- **2023-03-02** General Order, Amended
- **2023-03-02** Title restored
- **2023-03-02** Measure passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-06** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-03-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-13** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-20** General Order
- **2023-04-20** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-04-20** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-04-24** Enrolled, to House
- **2023-04-24** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2023-04-24** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-28** Approved by Governor 04/28/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e476c90-e633-4a3c-9986-500c337106fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).