---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abortion; creating the Unborn Person Wrongful Death Act; modifying requirements for award of certain damages; modifying persons with standing to bring certain actions. Effective date."
description: "Abortion; creating the Unborn Person Wrongful Death Act; modifying requirements for award of certain damages; modifying persons with standing to bring certain actions. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1728"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1728 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bullard", "Gann"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dc4a22f-5563-4d5e-a5fc-208804a4ee2c"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1728&session=2000"
source_hash: "dd313f0fa421a7c96212c27584aedf209c2f8eeaf9067cc1ad163def46a8729c"
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 1728 (2020) — Abortion; creating the Unborn Person Wrongful Death Act; modifying requirements for award of certain damages; modifying persons with standing to bring certain actions. 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/SB/SB1728 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1728 PCS.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB1728 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB1728 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB1728 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB1728 SFLR.PDF)
7. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1728 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Bullard — primary (person)
- Gann — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Authored by Senator Bullard
- **2020-02-03** Coauthored by Representative Gann (principal House author)
- **2020-02-03** Coauthored by Senator Boggs
- **2020-02-03** coauthored by Olsen
- **2020-02-06** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2020-02-17** Coauthored by Senator Dahm
- **2020-02-18** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Coauthored by Senator Scott
- **2020-03-04** Coauthored by Senator Rader
- **2020-03-04** Coauthored by Senator Daniels
- **2020-03-04** Coauthored by Senator Howard
- **2020-03-04** Coauthored by Senator Pederson
- **2020-03-05** General Order, Considered
- **2020-03-05** Measure passed: Ayes: 37 Nays: 9 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Referred for engrossment
- **2020-03-09** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2020-03-09** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-03-17** Second Reading referred to Public Health `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2020-04-06** Withdrawn from Public Health, Direct to Calendar
- **2020-05-15** General Order
- **2020-05-15** Coauthored by Representative(s) Humphrey, Stark, Steagall, CrosswhiteHader, West (Kevin), Smith, Grego, Patzkowsky, Roberts (Sean), Taylor
- **2020-05-15** Coauthored by Senator(s) Bergstrom, Shaw
- **2020-05-15** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 76 Nays: 18 `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-05-15** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2020-05-15** Referred for enrollment
- **2020-05-15** Enrolled, to House
- **2020-05-15** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2020-05-15** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-21** Approved by Governor 05/21/2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dc4a22f-5563-4d5e-a5fc-208804a4ee2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).