---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid; specifying certain qualifications for appeals; providing for recovery of certain costs. Effective date."
description: "Medicaid; specifying certain qualifications for appeals; providing for recovery of certain costs. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1553"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1553 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hasenbeck", "Kern"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2adca4a-fcd5-4e80-b87a-6d23ac8fb532"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1553&session=2600"
source_hash: "1d0224435df031828e663befd37d42204c750123a6b8f83ae6684e56878d26da"
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 1553 (2026) — Medicaid; specifying certain qualifications for appeals; providing for recovery of certain costs. 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/SB1553 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1553 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1553 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1553 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1553 SFLR.PDF)
6. **SB1553 (3-24-26) (KERN) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1553 (3-24-26) (KERN) FA1.PDF)
7. **SB1553 (3-24-26) (KERN) RT FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1553 (3-24-26) (KERN) RT FA2.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **90–2** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Health & Human Services — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Public Health Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Health And Human Services Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Advance — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Amendment — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hasenbeck — primary (person)
- Kern — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Authored by Senator Rosino
- **2026-02-02** Remove as author Senator Rosino; authored by Senator Kern
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Reported Do Pass as amended Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-16** Title stricken
- **2026-02-16** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2026-02-24** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-24** Coauthored by Representative Hasenbeck (principal House author)
- **2026-03-25** General Order, Amended
- **2026-03-25** Title restored
- **2026-03-25** Advanced to Third Reading
- **2026-03-25** Ayes: 42 Nays: 0
- **2026-03-25** Measure passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-26** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-26** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-01** Policy recommendation to the Health and Human Services Oversight committee; Do Pass Public Health `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-16** CR; Do Pass Health and Human Services Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-06** General Order
- **2026-05-06** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-06** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-06** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-13** Approved by Governor 05/12/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2adca4a-fcd5-4e80-b87a-6d23ac8fb532`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).