---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency medical services; declaring emergency medical services to be essential services for certain purpose. Emergency."
description: "Emergency medical services; declaring emergency medical services to be essential services for certain purpose. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 206"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 206 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newton", "Woods"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2026-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf15db63-6c09-4873-8cb7-273662f6a034"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB206&session=2600"
source_hash: "c29f4659f033ef7ca446aae46b2cc3ca1d10cab06174dc2ee7b656f6fdc10378"
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 206 (2026) — Emergency medical services; declaring emergency medical services to be essential services for certain purpose. Emergency.

## 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/SB206 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by NEWTON (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB206 FA1 NEWTONCA-GRS(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 AMENDMENTS/Amendment and Engr/SB206 HASB AND ENGR.PDF)
4. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB206 CA1.PDF)
5. **Committee Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB206 FULLAMD2 CARL NEWTON-TJ.PDF)
6. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB206 ENGR.PDF)
7. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB206 ENR.PDF)
8. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB206 HFLR.PDF)
9. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB206 SFLR.PDF)
10. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB206 HCS.PDF)

## Votes

- Fourth Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Health & Human Services — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **42–5** (pass) · upper
- Public Health Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Health And Human Services Oversight Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Newton — primary (person)
- Woods — 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 Woods
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Coauthored by Representative Newton (principal House author)
- **2026-02-23** Reported Do Pass as amended Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Coauthored by Representative Hardin
- **2026-02-25** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-04** General Order, Considered
- **2026-03-04** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-05** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-05** 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`
- **2026-04-01** Coauthored by Representative(s) Hays
- **2026-04-14** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Health and Human Services Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-04** General Order
- **2026-05-04** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-05-04** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 91 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-04** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-05-05** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2026-05-05** HAs read
- **2026-05-14** HAs adopted
- **2026-05-14** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 48 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2026-05-14** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-14** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-14** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-14** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-29** Approved by Governor 05/20/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf15db63-6c09-4873-8cb7-273662f6a034`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).