---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health; creating the Oklahoma Behavioral Health Vacancy Registry Act; requiring establishment of certain behavioral health vacancy registry; mandating certain reporting. Effective date."
description: "Mental health; creating the Oklahoma Behavioral Health Vacancy Registry Act; requiring establishment of certain behavioral health vacancy registry; mandating certain reporting. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1794"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1794 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roe", "Stanley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0910067f-4b85-403b-94d2-dd83b28b0998"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1794&session=2600"
source_hash: "c7b0c7b743eec4190bc4b76dd00e098b7111f9e21955b813204c1880434d2e20"
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 1794 (2026) — Mental health; creating the Oklahoma Behavioral Health Vacancy Registry Act; requiring establishment of certain behavioral health vacancy registry; mandating certain reporting. Effective date.

## 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/SB/SB1794 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1794 PCS.PDF)
3. **Committee Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1794 CA1.PDF)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1794 CS.PDF)
5. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1794 ENGR.PDF)
6. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1794 ENR.PDF)
7. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1794 HFLR.PDF)
8. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1794 SFLR.PDF)
9. **SB1794 (3-09-26) (STANLEY) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1794 (3-09-26) (STANLEY) RT FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- Public Health Committee: Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Appropriations — **22–2** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations — **23–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **35–6** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **87–2** (pass) · lower
- Health And Human Services Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Health & Human Services — **11–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roe — primary (person)
- Stanley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Authored by Senator Rosino
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-02** Remove as author Senator Rosino; authored by Senator Stanley
- **2026-02-16** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-16** Title stricken
- **2026-02-16** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02** Coauthored by Representative Roe (principal House author)
- **2026-03-04** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05** Coauthored by Senator Kirt
- **2026-03-09** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-11** General Order, Amended
- **2026-03-11** Title restored
- **2026-03-11** Measure passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 6 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-01** Policy recommendation to the Health and Human Services Oversight committee; Do Pass Public Health `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-16** CR; Do Pass Health and Human Services Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-16** Coauthored by Representative(s) Hefner
- **2026-05-06** General Order
- **2026-05-06** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-06** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-06** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-06** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-13** Approved by Governor 05/12/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0910067f-4b85-403b-94d2-dd83b28b0998`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).