---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care power of attorney; creating the Oklahoma Health Care Agent Act; establishing requirements for power of attorney for health care. Emergency."
description: "Health care power of attorney; creating the Oklahoma Health Care Agent Act; establishing requirements for power of attorney for health care. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1596"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1596 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard", "Stinson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3466c03d-9287-4790-ab50-b17b1e72f90d"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1596&session=2200"
source_hash: "82b3c32769c9796999ae61dd01b5cf7365f36425dd944deff0348d024b4da142"
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 1596 (2022) — Health care power of attorney; creating the Oklahoma Health Care Agent Act; establishing requirements for power of attorney for health care. 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/2021-22 INT/SB/SB1596 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1596 CA1.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB1596 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB1596 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB1596 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB1596 SFLR.PDF)
7. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1596 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Howard — primary (person)
- Stinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Authored by Senator Howard
- **2022-02-07** Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
- **2022-02-08** Second Reading referred to Judiciary `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-15** General Order, Considered
- **2022-03-15** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 3 `passage`
- **2022-03-15** Referred for engrossment
- **2022-03-21** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2022-03-21** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-28** Second Reading referred to Judiciary - Civil `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-14** Withdrawn from Judiciary - Civil Committee
- **2022-04-14** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** CR; Do Pass Rules Committee `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-26** General Order
- **2022-04-26** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-26** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-26** Referred for enrollment
- **2022-04-27** Enrolled, to House
- **2022-04-27** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2022-04-27** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-29** Approved by Governor 04/29/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3466c03d-9287-4790-ab50-b17b1e72f90d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).