---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home care; directing Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish certain family caregiver reimbursement program. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Home care; directing Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish certain family caregiver reimbursement program. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 56 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gollihare", "Stinson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81100bb6-b225-4c06-a0c6-c8263487fe59"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB56&session=2600"
source_hash: "4500b90955927f71481113756543ac3893329f96a75c28d8c327aec0c6726866"
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 56 (2026) — Home care; directing Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish certain family caregiver reimbursement program. 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/SB/SB56 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB56 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB56 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB56 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB56 SFLR.PDF)
6. **SB56 (3-05-25) (GOLLIHARE) RT FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB56 (3-05-25) (GOLLIHARE) RT FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- Appropriations And Budget Health Subcommittee: Do Pass — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- Health & Human Services — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **71–5** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- Appropriations And Budget Committee: Do Pass — **28–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gollihare — primary (person)
- Stinson — 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 Senator Gollihare
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Reported Do Pass as amended Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Title stricken
- **2025-02-20** Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
- **2025-02-25** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-11** General Order, Amended
- **2025-03-11** Title restored
- **2025-03-11** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Pederson
- **2025-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Hicks
- **2025-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Goodwin
- **2025-03-11** Coauthored by Senator Kirt
- **2025-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** Coauthored by Representative(s) Osburn
- **2025-04-16** Coauthored by Senator(s) Nice, Mann
- **2025-05-01** General Order
- **2025-05-01** Coauthored by Representative(s) Hefner
- **2025-05-01** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 71 Nays: 5 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-01** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-05** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-05** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-05** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/12/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81100bb6-b225-4c06-a0c6-c8263487fe59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).