---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation; amending definitions. Effective date."
description: "Workers' compensation; amending definitions. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 95"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 95 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archer", "Seifried"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a62eba9-23ef-4889-9ca5-334d379fd9b8"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB95&session=2500"
source_hash: "1507f393c74cc69959816ed99cbe7494e698d681f5e2c02ca92a5658d5a89ec4"
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 95 (2025) — Workers' compensation; amending definitions. Effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/SB/SB95 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB95 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB95 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB95 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB95 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Archer — primary (person)
- Seifried — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Authored by Senator Seifried
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Coauthored by Representative Archer (principal House author)
- **2025-03-06** Reported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** Coauthored by Senator Coleman
- **2025-03-11** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-26** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-26** Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-27** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-27** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Civil Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Civil Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Coauthored by Senator(s) Gillespie
- **2025-04-22** CR; Do Pass Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-30** General Order
- **2025-04-30** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-04-30** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-01** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-01** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-01** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07** Approved by Governor 05/06/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a62eba9-23ef-4889-9ca5-334d379fd9b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).