---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long-term care; updating statutory language related to ombudsmen and senior citizens. Emergency."
description: "Long-term care; updating statutory language related to ombudsmen and senior citizens. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 947"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 947 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gise", "Rosino"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be37ef3f-3c70-4c41-8b92-30b32d0cbe02"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB947&session=2600"
source_hash: "d49c9c9647e1fa0004c9325d84a65331780fc0f7172d39422b8579bba62b80c9"
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 947 (2026) — Long-term care; updating statutory language related to ombudsmen and senior citizens. 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/SB947 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB947 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB947 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB947 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB947 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **83–8** (pass) · lower
- Health And Human Services Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Health & Human Services — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Public Health Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gise — primary (person)
- Rosino — 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 Rosino
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Coauthored by Representative Gise (principal House author)
- **2025-02-24** Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26** Placed on General Order
- **2025-03-11** General Order, Considered
- **2025-03-11** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-12** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Policy recommendation to the Health and Human Services Oversight committee; Do Pass Public Health `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16** CR; Do Pass Health and Human Services Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-05** General Order
- **2025-05-05** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 83 Nays: 8 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-05** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-05** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-05-06** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2025-05-06** Enrolled, to House
- **2025-05-06** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13** Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/13/2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be37ef3f-3c70-4c41-8b92-30b32d0cbe02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).