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HB1115 • 2026

Medicaid; Oklahoma Health Care Authority; mental health; children; effective date.

Medicaid; Oklahoma Health Care Authority; mental health; children; effective date.

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Sponsor
Stewart
Last action
2025-02-04
Official status
Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee
Effective date
Not listed

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Medicaid; Oklahoma Health Care Authority; mental health; children; effective date.

Medicaid; Oklahoma Health Care Authority; mental health; children; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • Medicaid; Oklahoma Health Care Authority; mental health; children; effective date.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget

  2. 2025-02-04 House

    Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee

  3. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  4. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Stewart

Official Summary Text

Medicaid; Oklahoma Health Care Authority; mental health; children; effective date.

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1115 By: Stewart

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to Medicaid; requiring the Oklahoma
Health Care Authority to increase mental health rates
for children; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 4020 of Title 56, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall increase the Medicaid
rate for mental health services to children, nineteen (19) years of
age or younger, by thirty percent (30%).
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

60-1-11763 TJ 01/02/25