---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; Insurance Commissioner authority related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; creating the State-based Exchange Revolving Fund; purpose; effective date; emergency."
description: "Insurance; Insurance Commissioner authority related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; creating the State-based Exchange Revolving Fund; purpose; effective date; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1512"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1512 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paxton", "Tedford"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7441a294-6e72-4421-8ea7-ad7065154642"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1512&session=2600"
source_hash: "c7491122cc7d1cd04ff46ab30cdfd1a304a71745bfc2dd71150e02b442bc6db3"
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 1512 (2026) — Insurance; Insurance Commissioner authority related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; creating the State-based Exchange Revolving Fund; purpose; effective date; emergency.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 INT/hB/HB1512 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1512 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1512 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1512 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1512 SFLR.PDF)
6. **House Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1512 CS.PDF)
7. **Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1512 FULLPCS1 MARK TEDFORD-MJ.PDF)
8. **Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/HB1512 POLPCS1 MARK TEDFORD-MJ.PDF)
9. **Sub Committee Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCS/HB1512 SUBREC.PDF)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–4** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **90–4** (pass) · lower
- Appropriations And Budget General Government Subcommittee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Appropriations — **24–2** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass As Amended By Cs — **30–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paxton — primary (person)
- Tedford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Authored by Representative Tedford
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Rules `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Withdrawn from Rules Committee
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Appropriations and Budget `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget General Government Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03** Coauthored by Representative(s) Hill
- **2025-03-03** Authored by Senator Paxton (principal Senate author)
- **2025-03-03** Emergency added
- **2025-03-10** General Order
- **2025-03-10** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-11** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-11** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17** Reported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-17** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-28** Placed on General Order
- **2025-05-07** General Order, Considered
- **2025-05-07** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 4 `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-08** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-05-08** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-05-08** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7441a294-6e72-4421-8ea7-ad7065154642`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).