---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act; opt-out option; removing group insurance; effective date."
description: "Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act; opt-out option; removing group insurance; effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1187"
citation: "Oklahoma HB 1187 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burns", "West (Rick)"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63c7ba2f-fcf3-40da-a5a8-9bae12a145f5"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1187&session=2600"
source_hash: "c22a2a5dddfd83995ad7276ea15bc6a904613479f8250bfe61135b57292e82a1"
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 1187 (2026) — Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act; opt-out option; removing group insurance; 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/hB/HB1187 INT.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/hB/HB1187 ENGR.PDF)
3. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/hB/HB1187 ENR.PDF)
4. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/HB1187 HFLR.PDF)
5. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/HB1187 SFLR.PDF)

## Votes

- Insurance Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **35–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burns — primary (person)
- West (Rick) — 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 West (Rick)
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Insurance `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Authored by Senator Burns (principal Senate author)
- **2025-02-27** CR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-25** General Order
- **2025-03-25** Coauthored by Representative(s) Menz, Townley
- **2025-03-25** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 93 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Referred for engrossment
- **2025-03-26** Engrossed, signed, to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-26** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Reported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15** Placed on General Order
- **2025-04-28** General Order, Considered
- **2025-04-28** Coauthored by Senator Hamilton
- **2025-04-28** Measure passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 9 `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Engrossed measure signed, returned to House `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Referred for enrollment
- **2025-04-29** Enrolled, signed, to Senate
- **2025-04-29** Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
- **2025-04-29** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05** Approved by Governor 05/03/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63c7ba2f-fcf3-40da-a5a8-9bae12a145f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).