---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health and substance abuse services; expanding types of services that qualify for certain funds; establishing certain minimum allocation. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Mental health and substance abuse services; expanding types of services that qualify for certain funds; establishing certain minimum allocation. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 251"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 251 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gollihare", "Stinson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c1627e2-6ff3-497c-949c-5882614f83e7"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB251&session=2600"
source_hash: "dcfa8e35d7e9058c6f5ce606bed9526643639741ee28f1bddaa4155036d45c9c"
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 251 (2026) — Mental health and substance abuse services; expanding types of services that qualify for certain funds; establishing certain minimum allocation. Effective date. 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/SB251 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB251 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB251 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB251 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB251 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Health & Human Services — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass — **29–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **87–6** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Health Subcommittee: Do Pass — **4–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gollihare — primary (person)
- Stinson — 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 Gollihare
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Placed on General Order
- **2025-02-13** Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
- **2025-03-17** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-17** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-18** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-18** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** Coauthored by Representative(s) Pae
- **2025-05-07** General Order
- **2025-05-07** Coauthored by Representative(s) Pittman, Deck
- **2025-05-07** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-07** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-08** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-08** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-08** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c1627e2-6ff3-497c-949c-5882614f83e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).