republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2022/sb-1596.md

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Bill	Health care power of attorney; creating the Oklahoma Health Care Agent Act; establishing requirements for power of attorney for health care. Emergency.	Health care power of attorney; creating the Oklahoma Health Care Agent Act; establishing requirements for power of attorney for health care. Emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2022	SB 1596	Oklahoma SB 1596 (2022)	bill		enacted	Howard Stinson	7	22	0	2022-02-07	2022-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/3466c03d-9287-4790-ab50-b17b1e72f90d	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1596&session=2200	82b3c32769c9796999ae61dd01b5cf7365f36425dd944deff0348d024b4da142	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 1596 (2022) — Health care power of attorney; creating the Oklahoma Health Care Agent Act; establishing requirements for power of attorney for health care. Emergency.

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/2021-22 INT/SB/SB1596 INT.PDF)
2. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB1596 CA1.PDF)
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB1596 ENGR.PDF)
4. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB1596 ENR.PDF)
5. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB1596 HFLR.PDF)
6. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB1596 SFLR.PDF)
7. Senate Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB1596 CS.PDF)

Sponsors

• Howard — primary (person)
• Stinson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-07 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-07 Authored by Senator Howard
• 2022-02-07 Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)
• 2022-02-08 Second Reading referred to Judiciary reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2022-03-15 General Order, Considered
• 2022-03-15 Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 3 passage
• 2022-03-15 Referred for engrossment
• 2022-03-21 Engrossed to House passage
• 2022-03-21 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2022-03-28 Second Reading referred to Judiciary - Civil reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-04-14 Withdrawn from Judiciary - Civil Committee
• 2022-04-14 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2022-04-18 CR; Do Pass Rules Committee committee-passage
• 2022-04-26 General Order
• 2022-04-26 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 84 Nays: 3 passage, reading-3
• 2022-04-26 Signed, returned to Senate
• 2022-04-26 Referred for enrollment
• 2022-04-27 Enrolled, to House
• 2022-04-27 Signed, returned to Senate
• 2022-04-27 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-29 Approved by Governor 04/29/2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3466c03d-9287-4790-ab50-b17b1e72f90d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).