---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health benefit plans; requiring certain health benefit plans to consider certain factors when determining payments for services. Effective date."
description: "Health benefit plans; requiring certain health benefit plans to consider certain factors when determining payments for services. Effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 1443"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 1443 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell (Chad)", "Daniels"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/255b6531-5c12-4a46-9909-99ba01e5e5ee"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1443&session=2600"
source_hash: "f29c875d24a3b281841caf9a59cec14bb8e396281e6429edcca2fc9d19748a1d"
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 1443 (2026) — Health benefit plans; requiring certain health benefit plans to consider certain factors when determining payments for services. 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/SB1443 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1443 PCS.PDF)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1443 CS.PDF)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENGR/SB/SB1443 ENGR.PDF)
5. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 ENR/SB/SB1443 ENR.PDF)
6. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/HFLR/SB1443 HFLR.PDF)
7. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLR/SFLR/SB1443 SFLR.PDF)
8. **SB1443 (3-11-26) (DANIELS) FA1.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1443 (3-11-26) (DANIELS) FA1.PDF)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended Cs — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Insurance Committee: Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **68–17** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–7** (pass) · upper
- Commerce And Economic Development Oversight Committee: Do Pass — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caldwell (Chad) — primary (person)
- Daniels — 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 Daniels
- **2026-02-03** Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Coauthored by Representative Caldwell (Chad) (principal House author)
- **2026-02-12** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Business and Insurance committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-17** Placed on General Order
- **2026-03-16** General Order, Amended
- **2026-03-16** Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 7 `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Referred for engrossment
- **2026-03-17** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2026-03-17** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-30** Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-07** Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Insurance `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-20** CR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-05** General Order
- **2026-05-05** Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 68 Nays: 17 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-05** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-05** Referred for enrollment
- **2026-05-05** Enrolled, to House
- **2026-05-05** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2026-05-05** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-11** Approved by Governor 05/07/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/255b6531-5c12-4a46-9909-99ba01e5e5ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).