---
type: "Bill"
title: "Massage Therapy Practice Act; updating statutory language; providing exceptions for certain preemption. Effective date."
description: "Massage Therapy Practice Act; updating statutory language; providing exceptions for certain preemption. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 644"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 644 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stinson", "Thompson (Kristen)"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b98605d-ed7b-4d63-aa76-84d1446f653d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB644&session=2600"
source_hash: "35080a87bfe0bbded711df196847980794e3c050acc669db82a4ebc60f8d7a54"
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 644 (2026) — Massage Therapy Practice Act; updating statutory language; providing exceptions for certain preemption. 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/SB644 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB644 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB644 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB644 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB644 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Health And Human Services Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Public Health Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **43–3** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **68–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stinson — primary (person)
- Thompson (Kristen) — 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 Thompson
- **2025-02-03** Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Reported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-25** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-25** Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-26** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-26** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Policy recommendation to the Health and Human Services Oversight committee; Do Pass Public Health `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-21** CR; Do Pass Health and Human Services Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-21** Coauthored by Representative(s) Osburn
- **2025-05-06** General Order
- **2025-05-06** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 68 Nays: 15 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-07** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-07** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-07** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/14/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b98605d-ed7b-4d63-aa76-84d1446f653d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).