---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid; creating the Defunding Statutory Rape Cover-up Act; effective date."
description: "Medicaid; creating the Defunding Statutory Rape Cover-up Act; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 2591"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2591 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Echols"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33284e78-dfbe-469d-b41f-e37baad0bedb"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2591&session=2000"
source_hash: "5c054739a76dbc4297a58b4c032ff8b92a885369fa73d43a2406f35e1d8f1fed"
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 2591 (2020) — Medicaid; creating the Defunding Statutory Rape Cover-up Act; effective date.

## 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/2019-20 INT/hB/HB2591 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/hB/HB2591 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/hB/HB2591 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/HB2591 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/HB2591 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **35–8** (pass) · upper
- THIRD READING — **79–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Echols — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Authored by Representative Echols
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading referred to Public Health `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** CR; Do Pass Public Health Committee `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-05** Coauthored by Representative(s) Roberts (Sean)
- **2019-02-11** General Order
- **2019-02-11** Coauthored by Representative(s) Sanders, Russ, Lawson, Sims
- **2019-02-11** Authored by Senator Allen (principal Senate author)
- **2019-02-11** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 20 `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2019-02-12** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2019-02-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-18** Coauthored by Representative McCall
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2019-04-08** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-08** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
- **2019-04-10** Placed on General Order
- **2019-04-23** Coauthored by Senator Bergstrom
- **2019-04-24** General Order, Considered
- **2019-04-24** Measure passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 8 `passage`
- **2019-04-24** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2019-04-24** Referred for enrollment
- **2019-04-25** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2019-04-25** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2019-04-25** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-30** Approved by Governor 04/30/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33284e78-dfbe-469d-b41f-e37baad0bedb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).