---
type: "Bill"
title: "Midwifery; creating Shepherd's Law; providing for licensure of midwives; creating the Advisory Committee on Midwifery. Effective date."
description: "Midwifery; creating Shepherd's Law; providing for licensure of midwives; creating the Advisory Committee on Midwifery. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1823"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1823 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roe", "Stanley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c44c243-28f2-4375-a1a9-8c1e47b8a1a7"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1823&session=2000"
source_hash: "d1599e0f480ef546d313225bbeb36e064ff8a5fc959274fe8d7c3ebc859042d1"
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 1823 (2020) — Midwifery; creating Shepherd's Law; providing for licensure of midwives; creating the Advisory Committee on Midwifery. 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/SB1823 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1823 PCS.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENGR/SB/SB1823 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 ENR/SB/SB1823 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/HFLR/SB1823 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLR/SFLR/SB1823 SFLR.PDF)
7. **SB1823 (2-24-20) (STANLEY) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1823 (2-24-20) (STANLEY) RT FA1.PDF)
8. **SB1823 (3-03-20) (STANLEY) FA2.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1823 (3-03-20) (STANLEY) FA2.PDF)
9. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1823 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Roe — primary (person)
- Stanley — 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 Stanley
- **2020-02-10** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2020-02-17** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Coauthored by Representative Roe (principal House author)
- **2020-02-19** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Title stricken
- **2020-03-04** Coauthored by Senator Hicks
- **2020-03-04** General Order, Amended
- **2020-03-04** Title restored
- **2020-03-04** Measure passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 5 `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 Rules `referral-committee, reading-2`
- **2020-04-06** Withdrawn from Rules, Direct to Calendar
- **2020-05-11** General Order
- **2020-05-11** Coauthored by Representative(s) Fugate, Luttrell, Stark
- **2020-05-11** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 12 `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-05-11** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2020-05-11** Referred for enrollment
- **2020-05-12** Enrolled, to House
- **2020-05-12** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2020-05-12** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-18** Approved by Governor 05/18/2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c44c243-28f2-4375-a1a9-8c1e47b8a1a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).