---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; creating the Health Care Choice Act; authorizes buying insurance across state lines."
description: "Insurance; creating the Health Care Choice Act; authorizes buying insurance across state lines."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 478"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 478 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown", "Moore"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2edea569-bc27-43b4-beed-187a98d529b5"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB478&session=1800"
source_hash: "f6cd6afe558dd06dfc2cba232b33e0739cddd6551418d000c127d31a82cc88e6"
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 478 (2017-2018) — Insurance; creating the Health Care Choice Act; authorizes buying insurance across state lines.

## 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/2017-18 INT/SB/SB478 INT.PDF)
2. **Amended And Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB478 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENGR/SB/SB478 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENR/SB/SB478 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/HFLR/SB478 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/SFLR/SB478 SFLR.PDF)
7. **House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB478 HCS.PDF)
8. **Senate Conference Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCCS/SB478 CCS.PDF)

## Votes

- THIRD READING — **39–4** (pass) · upper
- FOURTH READING — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- SUSPEND HOUSE — **82–0** (pass) · lower
- THIRD READING — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- FOURTH READING — **88–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Authored by Senator Brown
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Reported Do Pass as amended Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Title stricken
- **2017-02-13** Emergency clause stricken
- **2017-02-22** Coauthored by Representative Moore (principal House author)
- **2017-03-23** General Order, Amended
- **2017-03-23** Measure passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 4 `passage`
- **2017-03-23** Referred for engrossment
- **2017-03-27** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2017-03-27** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** Second Reading referred to Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-12** CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Insurance Committee `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-12** Coauthored by Senator(s) Brecheen
- **2017-04-12** Title restored
- **2017-04-12** Enacting clause stricken
- **2017-04-27** General Order
- **2017-04-27** House Rule suspended
- **2017-04-27** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Enacting clause restored
- **2017-04-27** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 80 Nays: 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-27** Referred for engrossment
- **2017-05-01** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2017-05-01** HAs read
- **2017-05-08** HAs rejected, conference requested `amendment-failure`
- **2017-05-10** Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Insurance
- **2017-05-11** SCs named Brown, Leewright, Griffin, Paxton, Dahm, Sparks, Matthews
- **2017-05-17** CCR read
- **2017-05-18** CCR adopted
- **2017-05-18** Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 41 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2017-05-18** CCR submitted
- **2017-05-23** CCR adopted
- **2017-05-23** Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 1 `passage`
- **2017-05-23** To Senate
- **2017-05-23** Referred for enrollment
- **2017-05-23** Enrolled, to House
- **2017-05-23** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2017-05-24** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-31** Approved by Governor 05/31/2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2edea569-bc27-43b4-beed-187a98d529b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).