---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription. Effective date."
description: "Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 176"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 176 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dossett", "Roe"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 43
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/990cbddf-c230-4489-998b-320b36b6cbdb"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB176&session=2600"
source_hash: "bdfd5dbc0509c22ccbb49708b8f5296a9c0d5b78f5073deadbd930220eaf4fab"
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 176 (2026) — Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription. 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/SB176 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by KANE** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB176 FA1 KANEJO-CC.PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB176 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB176 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB176 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB176 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB176 SFLR.PDF)
8. **SB176 (3-12-25) (DOSSETT) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB176 (3-12-25) (DOSSETT) FA1.PDF)
9. **SB176 (3-12-25) (DOSSETT) RT FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB176 (3-12-25) (DOSSETT) RT FA2.PDF)

## Votes

- Insurance Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **33–13** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **74–15** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **30–16** (pass) · upper
- Fourth Reading — **65–25** (pass) · lower
- Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dossett — primary (person)
- Roe — 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 Dossett
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Reported Do Pass as amended Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Title stricken
- **2025-03-04** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-11** Coauthored by Representative Roe (principal House author)
- **2025-03-26** General Order, Amended
- **2025-03-26** Title restored
- **2025-03-26** Measure passed: Ayes: 33 Nays: 13 `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 Commerce and Economic Development Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Insurance `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Coauthored by Representative(s) Cantrell, Archer, Hefner
- **2025-04-23** CR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-05** General Order
- **2025-05-05** Coauthored by Representative(s) Waldron, Ranson
- **2025-05-05** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-05** Title stricken
- **2025-05-05** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 74 Nays: 15 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-05** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-05-06** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-06** HAs read
- **2025-05-06** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2025-05-07** Coauthored by Representative Pittman
- **2025-05-12** SCs named Dossett, Coleman, Alvord, Weaver, Standridge, Mann
- **2025-05-15** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Commerce and Economic Development Oversight
- **2025-05-20** CCR read
- **2025-05-20** Title restored
- **2025-05-21** CCR adopted
- **2025-05-21** Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 30 Nays: 16 `passage`
- **2025-05-21** CCR submitted
- **2025-05-22** CCR adopted
- **2025-05-22** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 65 Nays: 25 `passage`
- **2025-05-22** To Senate
- **2025-05-22** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-22** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-22** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-22** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/29/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/990cbddf-c230-4489-998b-320b36b6cbdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).