---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals; establishing certain requirements; providing for certain determination, evaluation, and consideration. Effective date."
description: "Hospitals; establishing certain requirements; providing for certain determination, evaluation, and consideration. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1748"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1748 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bush", "Kidd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c241150-8c3a-46e1-9531-7591a394fe69"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1748&session=2000"
source_hash: "18a1cbe431e442ca70c7633744495c580ab1313d45fb0ff4612416d8922c0a75"
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 1748 (2020) — Hospitals; establishing certain requirements; providing for certain determination, evaluation, and consideration. 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/SB1748 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB1748 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB1748 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB1748 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB1748 SFLR.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Bush — primary (person)
- Kidd — 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 Smalley
- **2020-02-03** Remove as author Senator Smalley; authored by Senator Kidd
- **2020-02-06** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Coauthored by Representative Bush (principal House author)
- **2020-02-24** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** General Order, Considered
- **2020-03-04** Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Referred for engrossment
- **2020-03-05** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2020-03-05** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-03-17** Second Reading referred to Health Services and Long-Term Care `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2020-04-06** Withdrawn from Health Services and Long-Term Care, Direct to Calendar
- **2020-05-15** General Order
- **2020-05-15** Coauthored by Representative(s) Pittman
- **2020-05-15** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 2 `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/9c241150-8c3a-46e1-9531-7591a394fe69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).