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SB176 • 2026

Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription. Effective date.

Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Dossett
Last action
2025-05-29
Official status
Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/29/2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription. Effective date.

Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription.

What This Bill Does

  • Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (House): Engrossed (4/8/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (House): Senate Conference Committee Report (5/20/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (Senate): Senate Conference Committee Report (5/20/2025) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 176 (Senate): SB176 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate)) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 176 (Senate): SB176 AENGR FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: SB176 FA1 KaneJo-CC 5/5/2025 5:21:28 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: John Kane Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk FLOOR AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend SB176 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By striking the Title.

  • SB176 FA1 KaneJo-CC 5/5/2025 5:21:28 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: John Kane Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk FLOOR AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend SB176 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By striking the Title.
Filed

Plain English: (Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.

  • (Floor Amendments Only) Date and Time Filed: Untimely Amendment Cycle Extended Secondary Amendment SENATE CHAMBER STATE OF OKLAHOMA DISPOSITION FLOOR AMENDMENT No.
  • ________ COMMITTEE AMENDMENT (Date) I move to amend Senate Bill No.
  • 176 as follows: 1.
  • On Page 2, Line 3, by deleting after the word “A”, and before the word “supply”, the words “twelve-month”, and inserting the words “six-month”; 2.
Filed

Plain English: Filed

  • The official amendment file could not be read automatically during the last sync, so only the official amendment metadata is shown right now.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-29 Senate

    Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/29/2025

  2. 2025-05-22 House

    CCR adopted

  3. 2025-05-22 House

    Fourth Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 65 Nays: 25

  4. 2025-05-22 House

    To Senate

  5. 2025-05-22 Senate

    Referred for enrollment

  6. 2025-05-22 Senate

    Enrolled, to House

  7. 2025-05-22 House

    Signed, returned to Senate

  8. 2025-05-22 Senate

    Sent to Governor

  9. 2025-05-21 Senate

    CCR adopted

  10. 2025-05-21 Senate

    Measure passed, to House: Ayes: 30 Nays: 16

  11. 2025-05-21 House

    CCR submitted

  12. 2025-05-20 Senate

    CCR read

  13. 2025-05-20 Senate

    Title restored

  14. 2025-05-15 House

    Conference granted, naming Conference Committee on Commerce and Economic Development Oversight

  15. 2025-05-12 Senate

    SCs named Dossett, Coleman, Alvord, Weaver, Standridge, Mann

  16. 2025-05-07 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Pittman

  17. 2025-05-06 House

    Engrossed, signed, to Senate

  18. 2025-05-06 Senate

    HAs read

  19. 2025-05-06 Senate

    HAs rejected, conference requested

  20. 2025-05-05 House

    General Order

  21. 2025-05-05 House

    Coauthored by Representative(s) Waldron, Ranson

  22. 2025-05-05 House

    Amended

  23. 2025-05-05 House

    Title stricken

  24. 2025-05-05 House

    Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 74 Nays: 15

  25. 2025-05-05 House

    Referred for engrossment

  26. 2025-04-23 House

    CR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee

  27. 2025-04-08 House

    Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Insurance

  28. 2025-04-08 House

    Coauthored by Representative(s) Cantrell, Archer, Hefner

  29. 2025-04-01 House

    Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight

  30. 2025-04-01 House

    Referred to Insurance

  31. 2025-03-27 Senate

    Engrossed to House

  32. 2025-03-27 House

    First Reading

  33. 2025-03-26 Senate

    General Order, Amended

  34. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Title restored

  35. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Measure passed: Ayes: 33 Nays: 13

  36. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Referred for engrossment

  37. 2025-03-11 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Roe (principal House author)

  38. 2025-03-04 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  39. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Reported Do Pass as amended Business and Insurance committee; CR filed

  40. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Title stricken

  41. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Business and Insurance

  42. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  43. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Dossett

Official Summary Text

Health benefit plans; requiring coverage for certain prescription. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (House): Engrossed (4/8/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (House): Senate Conference Committee Report (5/20/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (Senate): Introduced (12/30/2024)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 176 (Senate): Senate Conference Committee Report (5/20/2025)
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 176 (Senate): SB176 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 176 (Senate): SB176 AENGR FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 176 By: Dossett of the Senate

and

Roe, Cantrell, Archer,
Hefner, Waldron, Ranson,
and Pittman of the House

An Act relating to health benefit plans; defining
terms; requiring coverage for certain prescription;
construing provisions; providing for codification;
and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT: Health benefit plans

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 6060.3b of Title 36, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A. As used in this section:

1. “Contraceptive drugs” means all drugs approved by the United
States Food and Drug Administration that are used to prevent
pregnancy including but not limited to hormonal drugs administered
orally, transdermally, and intravaginally; and

2. “Health benefit plan” means a health benefit plan as defined
pursuant to Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

B. Any health benefit plan that is offered, issued, or renewed
on or after the effective date of this act that offers coverage for
contraceptive drugs shall provide coverage for an enrollee to
obtain:

ENR. S. B. NO. 176 Page 2
1. A three-month supply of a contraceptive drug at once the
first time the enrollee obtains the drug; and

2. A six-month supply of the contraceptive drug at once each
subsequent time that the enrollee obtains the same drug, regardless
of whether the enrollee was enrolled in the health benefit plan the
first time that the enrollee obtained the drug.

An enrollee may obtain only one six-month supply of a covered
prescription drug during each six-month period.

C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an
enrollee of a health benefit plan from requesting a smaller supply
or to prohibit a prescribing provider from prescribing a smaller
supply if such a prescription is supported by clinical utility and
medical appropriateness.

D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require
coverage under a health benefit plan for any medications that could
be used to terminate an existing pregnancy.

SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

ENR. S. B. NO. 176 Page 3
Passed the Senate the 21st day of May, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 22nd day of May, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.

_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of __________________, 20 _______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________