republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2023/sb-254.md

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Bill	Behavioral health; requiring health insurer to cover certain out-of-network services under certain circumstances; providing exceptions. Effective date.	Behavioral health; requiring health insurer to cover certain out-of-network services under certain circumstances; providing exceptions. Effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2023	SB 254	Oklahoma SB 254 (2023)	bill		enacted	Boatman Garvin	11	28	0	2023-02-06	2023-05-25	openstates	ocd-bill/5d0ece86-3b8c-4126-9cd1-ae7dac754770	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB254&session=2300	492a7381f2df55b367ed84c6855facb146ec60c507d30171383e5250d4e9367f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 254 (2023) — Behavioral health; requiring health insurer to cover certain out-of-network services under certain circumstances; providing exceptions. 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/2023-24 INT/SB/SB254 INT.PDF)
2. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB254 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
3. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB254 PCS.PDF)
4. Committee Amendment 1 (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB254 CA1.PDF)
5. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB254 CS.PDF)
6. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB254 ENGR.PDF)
7. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB254 ENR.PDF)
8. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB254 HFLR.PDF)
9. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB254 SFLR.PDF)
10. House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/HCSS/SB254 HCS.PDF)
11. SB254 FULLPCS1 JEFF BOATMAN-TJ.PDF (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/House/SB254 FULLPCS1 JEFF BOATMAN-TJ.PDF)

Sponsors

• Boatman — primary (person)
• Garvin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-06 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-06 Authored by Senator Garvin
• 2023-02-07 Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-13 Coauthored by Representative Boatman (principal House author)
• 2023-02-21 Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2023-02-21 Title stricken
• 2023-03-23 General Order, Considered
• 2023-03-23 Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1 passage
• 2023-03-23 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-03-27 Engrossed to House passage
• 2023-03-27 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-03-29 Second Reading referred to Public Health reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Public Health Committee committee-passage
• 2023-04-13 Title restored
• 2023-04-24 General Order
• 2023-04-24 Coauthored by Representative(s) Provenzano
• 2023-04-24 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 85 Nays: 0 passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-24 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-04-25 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2023-04-25 HAs read
• 2023-04-25 Coauthored by Representative Alonso-Sandoval
• 2023-05-18 HAs adopted
• 2023-05-18 Measure passed: Ayes: 44 Nays: 1 passage
• 2023-05-18 Referred for enrollment
• 2023-05-19 Enrolled, to House
• 2023-05-19 Signed, returned to Senate
• 2023-05-19 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-25 Approved by Governor 05/25/2023 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d0ece86-3b8c-4126-9cd1-ae7dac754770. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).