---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Health Care Authority; directing Authority to achieve certain savings; specifying certain provisions relating to budget and expenditures. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Oklahoma Health Care Authority; directing Authority to achieve certain savings; specifying certain provisions relating to budget and expenditures. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 1605"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1605 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David", "Wallace"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-04-11"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b5c7897-0a52-42cc-91d6-0a2fa4ba227e"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1605&session=1800"
source_hash: "0a6365821ce5c79d64513b0ef0dbb168db7e9fd04ca43a70121547a6b35d7913"
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 1605 (2017-2018) — Oklahoma Health Care Authority; directing Authority to achieve certain savings; specifying certain provisions relating to budget and expenditures. 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/SB/SB1605 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENGR/SB/SB1605 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENR/SB/SB1605 ENR.PDF)
4. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1605 CS.PDF)

## Votes

- EMERGENCY — **63–23** (fail) · lower
- EMERGENCY — **76–4** (pass) · lower
- RECONSIDER — **62–4** (pass) · lower
- THIRD READING — **41–4** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **62–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David — primary (person)
- Wallace — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-11** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-04-11** Authored by Senator David
- **2018-04-11** Coauthored by Senator Fields
- **2018-04-11** Coauthored by Representative Wallace (principal House author)
- **2018-04-11** Coauthored by Representative Casey
- **2018-04-12** Second Reading referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-27** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget committee; JCR filed `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-30** JCR adopted
- **2018-04-30** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 4 `passage`
- **2018-04-30** Referred for engrossment
- **2018-04-30** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2018-04-30** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-05-01** Second Reading, direct to Joint Calendar
- **2018-05-02** General Order
- **2018-05-02** JCR adopted
- **2018-05-02** Third Reading, Measure passed and Emergency failed: Ayes: 62 Nays: 26; Ayes: 63 Nays: 23 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-05-02** Notice served to reconsider vote by Representative Caldwell
- **2018-05-03** Motion to reconsider adopted: Ayes: 62 Nays: 4
- **2018-05-03** Emergency passed: Ayes: 76 Nays: 4
- **2018-05-03** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2018-05-03** Referred for enrollment
- **2018-05-03** Enrolled, to House
- **2018-05-03** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2018-05-03** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Approved by Governor 05/10/2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b5c7897-0a52-42cc-91d6-0a2fa4ba227e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).