republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2024/sb-542.md

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Bill	Insurance Department; requiring certain persons and organizations to furnish adequate response within certain timeframe; Insurance Commissioner duties; Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Commission; modifications. Effective date.	Insurance Department; requiring certain persons and organizations to furnish adequate response within certain timeframe; Insurance Commissioner duties; Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Commission; modifications. Effective date.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2024	SB 542	Oklahoma SB 542 (2024)	bill		enacted	Pemberton Sneed	10	28	5	2023-02-06	2024-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/a5c5c86d-d2bf-45d5-a67b-1060285e6f46	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB542&session=2400	ec54e7f64bf10e6749bdd5e7382faaa8afbfad51f2949deb9d489d29d9ef9fa5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma SB 542 (2024) — Insurance Department; requiring certain persons and organizations to furnish adequate response within certain timeframe; Insurance Commissioner duties; Patient's Right to Pharmacy Choice Commission; modifications. 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/SB542 INT.PDF)
2. 1 Amendment to Amendment by SNEED (UNTIMELY FILED) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB542 FA1-A1 SNEEDCH-MJ(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
3. 1 Floor Amendment by SNEED (UNTIMELY FILED) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLOOR AMENDMENTS/House/SB542 FA1 SNEEDCH-MJ(UNTIMELY FILED).PDF)
4. Amended And Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 AMENDMENTS/Amendment & Engr/SB542 HASB & ENGR.PDF)
5. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB542 PCS.PDF)
6. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB542 CS.PDF)
7. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/SB/SB542 ENGR.PDF)
8. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/SB/SB542 ENR.PDF)
9. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/SB542 HFLR.PDF)
10. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/SB542 SFLR.PDF)

Votes

• Third Reading — 88–1 (pass) · lower
• Insurance Committee: Do Pass — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Fourth Reading — 39–2 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee On Retirement & Insurance: Committee Substitute, Motion By Senator Montgomery - Adopted (Request No: 1783) — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pemberton — primary (person)
• Sneed — 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 Montgomery
• 2023-02-06 Coauthored by Representative Sneed (principal House author)
• 2023-02-07 Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-07 Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Retirement and Insurance committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2023-02-13 General Order, Considered
• 2023-02-13 Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0 passage
• 2023-02-13 Referred for engrossment
• 2023-02-14 Engrossed to House passage
• 2023-02-14 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2023-03-29 Second Reading referred to Insurance reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-04 CR; Do Pass Insurance Committee committee-passage
• 2024-04-23 House Rule suspended
• 2024-04-23 General Order
• 2024-04-23 Coauthored by Representative(s) Wallace
• 2024-04-23 Amended by floor substitute
• 2024-04-23 Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 88 Nays: 1 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-23 Referred for engrossment
• 2024-04-24 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2024-04-24 HAs read
• 2024-05-01 Remove as author Senator Montgomery; authored by Senator Pemberton
• 2024-05-21 HAs adopted
• 2024-05-21 Measure passed: Ayes: 39 Nays: 2 passage
• 2024-05-21 Referred for enrollment
• 2024-05-22 Enrolled, to House
• 2024-05-22 Signed, returned to Senate
• 2024-05-22 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-28 Approved by Governor 05/28/2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5c5c86d-d2bf-45d5-a67b-1060285e6f46. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).