SB1837 • 2026

Medicaid home- and community-based services; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek certain exemption. Effective date.

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Sponsor: Reinhardt
Last action: 2026-02-24
Official status: Placed on General Order
Effective date: Not listed

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Medicaid home- and community-based services; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek certain exemption. Effective date.

Medicaid home- and community-based services; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek certain exemption.

What This Bill Does

Medicaid home- and community-based services; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek certain exemption.
Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1837 (Senate): Introduced (1/20/2026) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 1837 (Senate): SB1837 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

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Bill History

2026-02-24 Senate
Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
2026-02-24 Senate
Placed on General Order
2026-02-16 Senate
Reported Do Pass as amended Health and Human Services committee; CR filed
2026-02-16 Senate
Title stricken
2026-02-16 Senate
Referred to Appropriations
2026-02-03 Senate
Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee
2026-02-02 Senate
First Reading
2026-02-02 Senate
Authored by Senator Reinhardt

Official Summary Text

Medicaid home- and community-based services; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek certain exemption. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1837 (Senate): Introduced (1/20/2026)
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 1837 (Senate): SB1837 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 16, 2026
AS AMENDED

SENATE BILL NO. 1837 By: Reinhardt

[ Medicaid - exemption - protections - codification -
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 1018.1 of Title 56, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall submit a request to
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for an exemption from
the provisions of 42 C.F.R., Section 441.301(c)(1)(vi) to allow
providers of Medicaid home- and community-based services in rural
counties of this state to provide case management and develop the
required person-centered plan. As used in this subsection, “rural
counties” means counties with a population of not more than sixty
thousand (60,000), according to the most recent Federal Decennial
Census.
B. For providers exempted under subsection A of this section,
the Authority shall devise conflict of interest protections in
accordance with 42 C.F.R., Section 441.301(c)(1)(vi), including

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separation of entity and provider functions within provider
entities.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
February 16, 2026 - DO PASS AS AMENDED