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SB253 • 2026

Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request. Effective date.

Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Hines
Last action
2025-05-15
Official status
Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025
Effective date
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Plain English Breakdown

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Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request. Effective date.

Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request.

What This Bill Does

  • Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 253 (House): Engrossed (4/3/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 253 (Senate): Introduced (1/2/2025)

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-15 Senate

    Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/15/2025

  2. 2025-05-08 Senate

    Enrolled, to House

  3. 2025-05-08 House

    Signed, returned to Senate

  4. 2025-05-08 Senate

    Sent to Governor

  5. 2025-05-07 House

    General Order

  6. 2025-05-07 House

    Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 0

  7. 2025-05-07 House

    Signed, returned to Senate

  8. 2025-05-07 Senate

    Referred for enrollment

  9. 2025-04-16 House

    CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee

  10. 2025-04-16 House

    Coauthored by Representative(s) Osburn

  11. 2025-04-08 House

    Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee

  12. 2025-04-02 House

    Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee

  13. 2025-04-01 House

    Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget

  14. 2025-03-11 Senate

    Engrossed to House

  15. 2025-03-11 House

    First Reading

  16. 2025-03-10 Senate

    General Order, Considered

  17. 2025-03-10 Senate

    Measure passed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 0

  18. 2025-03-10 Senate

    Referred for engrossment

  19. 2025-03-05 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  20. 2025-03-03 Senate

    Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed

  21. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services

  22. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Stinson (principal House author)

  23. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  24. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Hines

Official Summary Text

Medicaid; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to include certain information in annual budget request. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 253 (House): Engrossed (4/3/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 253 (Senate): Introduced (1/2/2025)

Current Bill Text

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An Act
ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 253 By: Hines of the Senate

and

Stinson and Osburn of the
House

An Act relating to the state Medicaid program;
requiring the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to
include certain information in annual budget request;
specifying calculation method of certain costs;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.

SUBJECT: Medicaid

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 1-1925.2A of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority in its annual budget
request submitted pursuant to Section 34.36 of Title 62 of the
Oklahoma Statutes shall include a supplemental item reflecting the
new state and federal funding necessary to meet the additional costs
associated with reimbursing nursing facilities and intermediate care
facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities at the
most recent audited cost.

B. Audited cost shall be calculated by using the latest cost
report submitted to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.

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

ENR. S. B. NO. 253 Page 2
Passed the Senate the 10th day of March, 2025.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 7th 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: _________________________________