---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employees; transferring administration of State Employee Assistance Program to Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; effective date; emergency."
description: "State employees; transferring administration of State Employee Assistance Program to Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; effective date; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1555"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1555 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faught", "Quinn"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b1e4d44-2ad6-4d0d-9015-300d5c3670b3"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1555&session=1800"
source_hash: "a4a469eb6ce91c82e5ea97ca77bcfa450d549d70076f9614d1623d84c2065d57"
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 HB 1555 (2017-2018) — State employees; transferring administration of State Employee Assistance Program to Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; effective date; emergency.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 INT/hB/HB1555 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENGR/hB/HB1555 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENR/hB/HB1555 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/HFLR/HB1555 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/SFLR/HB1555 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- THIRD READING — **36–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faught — primary (person)
- Quinn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Authored by Representative Faught
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading referred to Government Modernization `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** CR; Do Pass Government Modernization Committee `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Authored by Senator Quinn (principal Senate author)
- **2017-03-14** General Order
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-14** Referred for engrossment
- **2017-03-20** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading referred to Appropriations `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Title stricken
- **2017-04-05** Emergency clause stricken
- **2017-04-05** Enacting clause stricken
- **2017-04-26** General Order, Amended
- **2017-04-26** Title restored
- **2017-04-26** Enacting clause restored
- **2017-04-26** Emergency clause restored
- **2017-04-26** Amendment restored bill to engrossed version `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-26** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 36 Nays: 5 `passage`
- **2017-04-26** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2017-04-26** Referred for enrollment
- **2017-04-27** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2017-04-27** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2017-04-27** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-03** Approved by Governor 05/03/2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b1e4d44-2ad6-4d0d-9015-300d5c3670b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).