republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2017-2018/hb-1579.md

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Bill	Poor persons; requiring Department of Public Safety to cooperate with Health Care Authority to establish certain procedures; effective date.	Poor persons; requiring Department of Public Safety to cooperate with Health Care Authority to establish certain procedures; effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2017-2018	HB 1579	Oklahoma HB 1579 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Bice Caldwell	5	20	2	2017-02-06	2017-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/acc237c4-92da-4895-8cae-025dbdaa7088	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1579&session=1800	3a1c4a502306f9bd53de1e8daedb40ea5d022a2ea3c2c00853a72071ac5ccb0e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 1579 (2017-2018) — Poor persons; requiring Department of Public Safety to cooperate with Health Care Authority to establish certain procedures; effective date.

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/hB/HB1579 INT.PDF)
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENGR/hB/HB1579 ENGR.PDF)
3. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 ENR/hB/HB1579 ENR.PDF)
4. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/HFLR/HB1579 HFLR.PDF)
5. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2017-18 FLR/SFLR/HB1579 SFLR.PDF)

Votes

• THIRD READING — 87–5 (pass) · lower
• THIRD READING — 38–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bice — primary (person)
• Caldwell — 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 Representative Caldwell
• 2017-02-07 Second Reading referred to Government Modernization reading-2, referral-committee
• 2017-02-22 CR; Do Pass Government Modernization Committee committee-passage
• 2017-02-22 Authored by Senator Bice (principal Senate author)
• 2017-03-08 General Order
• 2017-03-08 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 5 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-08 Referred for engrossment
• 2017-03-09 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2017-03-09 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2017-03-27 Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services reading-2, referral-committee
• 2017-04-03 Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2017-04-24 General Order, Considered
• 2017-04-24 Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 6 passage
• 2017-04-24 Engrossed measure signed, returned to House passage
• 2017-04-24 Referred for enrollment
• 2017-04-25 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2017-04-25 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2017-04-25 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-01 Approved by Governor 05/01/2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/acc237c4-92da-4895-8cae-025dbdaa7088. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).