---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance Department; requiring certain persons and organizations to furnish adequate response within certain timeframe; Insurance Commissioner duties; Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Commission; modifications. Effective date."
description: "Insurance Department; requiring certain persons and organizations to furnish adequate response within certain timeframe; Insurance Commissioner duties; Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Commission; modifications. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 542"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 542 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pemberton", "Sneed"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5c5c86d-d2bf-45d5-a67b-1060285e6f46"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB542&session=2400"
source_hash: "ec54e7f64bf10e6749bdd5e7382faaa8afbfad51f2949deb9d489d29d9ef9fa5"
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 542 (2024) — Insurance Department; requiring certain persons and organizations to furnish adequate response within certain timeframe; Insurance Commissioner duties; Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Commission; modifications. 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/SB/SB542 INT.PDF)
2. **1 Amendment to Amendment by SNEED (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB542 FA1-A1 SNEEDCH-MJ(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. **1 Floor Amendment by SNEED (UNTIMELY FILED)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB542 FA1 SNEEDCH-MJ(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
4. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB542 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
5. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB542 PCS.PDF)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB542 CS.PDF)
7. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB542 ENGR.PDF)
8. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB542 ENR.PDF)
9. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB542 HFLR.PDF)
10. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB542 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **88–1** (pass) · lower
- Insurance Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Fourth Reading — **39–2** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee On Retirement & Insurance: Committee Substitute, Motion By Senator Montgomery - Adopted (Request No: 1783) — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pemberton — primary (person)
- Sneed — 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 Senator Montgomery
- **2023-02-06** Coauthored by Representative Sneed (principal House author)
- **2023-02-07** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** General Order, Considered
- **2023-02-13** Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2023-02-13** Referred for engrossment
- **2023-02-14** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2023-02-14** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading referred to Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04** CR; Do Pass Insurance Committee `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-23** House Rule suspended
- **2024-04-23** General Order
- **2024-04-23** Coauthored by Representative(s) Wallace
- **2024-04-23** Amended by floor substitute
- **2024-04-23** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Referred for engrossment
- **2024-04-24** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2024-04-24** HAs read
- **2024-05-01** Remove as author Senator Montgomery; authored by Senator Pemberton
- **2024-05-21** HAs adopted
- **2024-05-21** Measure passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 2 `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Referred for enrollment
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled, to House
- **2024-05-22** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2024-05-22** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Approved by Governor 05/28/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5c5c86d-d2bf-45d5-a67b-1060285e6f46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).