---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care facility violence; definition; reporting assaults; criteria to report; State Department of Health; effective date."
description: "Health care facility violence; definition; reporting assaults; criteria to report; State Department of Health; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2154"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 2154 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roe", "Thompson (Kristen)"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52b854aa-d41a-493c-b930-4d550f03a4b8"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB2154&session=2300"
source_hash: "8f099fa64517c0761d30291e99fa131fd4fe40a8d41b1db7c813448c8cb4b9aa"
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 2154 (2023) — Health care facility violence; definition; reporting assaults; criteria to report; State Department of Health; 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/2023-24 INT/hB/HB2154 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Floor Amendment by ROE (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/HB2154 FA1 ROECY-TJ(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/hB/HB2154 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/hB/HB2154 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/HB2154 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/HB2154 SFLR.PDF)
7. **HB2154 FULLPCS1 CYNTHIA ROE-TJ.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB2154 FULLPCS1 CYNTHIA ROE-TJ.PDF)
8. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB2154 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Roe — primary (person)
- Thompson (Kristen) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Authored by Representative Roe
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Judiciary - Criminal `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary - Criminal Committee `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-27** Authored by Senator Thompson (Kristen) (principal Senate author)
- **2023-03-09** General Order
- **2023-03-09** House Rule suspended
- **2023-03-09** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-09** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 86 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-03-13** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-13** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Public Safety `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Reported Do Pass Public Safety committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-24** General Order, Considered
- **2023-04-24** Measure passed: Ayes: 42 Nays: 6 `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Referred for enrollment
- **2023-04-25** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2023-04-25** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2023-04-25** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-01** Approved by Governor 05/01/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52b854aa-d41a-493c-b930-4d550f03a4b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).