republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2017-2018/sb-478.md

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Bill	Insurance; creating the Health Care Choice Act; authorizes buying insurance across state lines.	Insurance; creating the Health Care Choice Act; authorizes buying insurance across state lines.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2017-2018	SB 478	Oklahoma SB 478 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Brown Moore	8	40	5	2017-02-06	2017-05-31	openstates	ocd-bill/2edea569-bc27-43b4-beed-187a98d529b5	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB478&session=1800	f6cd6afe558dd06dfc2cba232b33e0739cddd6551418d000c127d31a82cc88e6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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; origin ocd-bill/2edea569-bc27-43b4-beed-187a98d529b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).