All Roll Calls
Yes: 176 • No: 3
OklahomaSB 1447Oklahoma 2026 Regular SessionSenate
Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan; prohibiting certain contracts from being awarded; requiring certain scoring; requiring certain certifications. Effective date.
Sponsored By: Todd Gollihare (Republican)
Became Law
Senate Committee
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6 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Pharmacy access protections for state employees
Beginning November 1, 2026, Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan contracts must require adequate pharmacy access, including in rural areas. Networks must follow pharmacy choice and access rules set by contract. Pharmacy exclusions need documented access and cost reasons approved by the plan. Managers cannot steer members to affiliated pharmacies without written plan approval after submitting an impact analysis. Unaffiliated pharmacies cannot receive worse network terms or payment methods than affiliated pharmacies. The law does not guarantee any particular pharmacy stays in the network or set a distance standard.
Drug rebates go to employee plan
Beginning November 1, 2026, pharmacy benefit managers must pass all rebates to the Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan. Rebates include incentive payments, price protection payments, commissions, and similar payments—not just standard rebates. The definition excludes purchase discounts for drugs bought by specialty drug pharmacies. Fixed, separately listed administrative fees are also excluded from the pass-through rule. The plan can audit rebates and inspect manufacturer rebate contracts without redactions. The law does not say how these funds change members’ costs.
State employee plan controls drug coverage
Beginning November 1, 2026, the Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan has final say over its covered drug list. It also controls drug tiers, preferred status, exclusions, specialty labels, and rules for drug use. Pharmacy benefit managers can recommend changes but cannot change drug-list rules, add restrictions, or move drugs without written plan approval. The law does not require coverage of specific drugs or set members’ costs.
State employee plan owns pharmacy data
Beginning November 1, 2026, contracts must state that the Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan owns all its plan-specific pharmacy operations data. This includes claims, prices, rebates, drug-list information, drug-use review results, and audit records held by managers, affiliates, or subcontractors. They must provide data and reports in the format the plan requires, using contract deadlines. Without contract deadlines, existing requested data is due within five business days; monthly files and reports are due within 30 days after month-end. Managers cannot withhold or delay data, and only a fixed administrative fee is allowed for access, extraction, interfaces, licensing, or delivery. Managers remain responsible for affiliate and subcontractor compliance.
Stronger oversight of employee pharmacy managers
Beginning November 1, 2026, the Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan must receive broad audit rights over pharmacy managers, affiliates, and subcontractors. The plan can choose auditors to check contract compliance. Managers cannot block sharing contract terms, performance measures, audit results, or cost data with oversight bodies, auditors, actuaries, or lawyers. Shared contract terms remain subject to reasonable confidentiality. Managers must disclose affiliates and subcontractors before contract award, and new ones no fewer than 30 days after association. The law treats a 10% voting or ownership stake as control when defining these relationships. Managers must keep System and Organization Controls Type 2 certification throughout their contracts.
State employee plan gets pricing guarantees
Beginning November 1, 2026, pharmacy benefit managers must offer pricing guarantees when the Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan chooses them. Managers cannot block the plan from requiring or negotiating these guarantees for covered outpatient drugs. Options include National Average Drug Acquisition Cost plus a dispensing fee, maximum allowable cost pricing, or another plan-approved, verifiable benchmark. Contract guarantees must measure total net cost and access, not rebate volume. Total net cost includes plan spending and member payments, minus rebates and other payments required to reach the plan. Contracts must include clear remedies for failures, in the form of credits payable by the plan. The law sets no credit amounts or guaranteed member savings.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Todd Gollihare
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
David Bullard
Republican • Senate
George Burns
Republican • Senate
T.J. Marti
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/28/2026
THIRD READING
Yes: 87 • No: 0
House vote • 4/14/2026
DO PASS
Yes: 15 • No: 0
House vote • 4/14/2026
DO PASS
Yes: 15 • No: 0
House vote • 4/7/2026
DO PASS
Yes: 6 • No: 0
House vote • 4/7/2026
DO PASS
Yes: 6 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/26/2026
THIRD READING
Yes: 40 • No: 1 • Other: 1
Senate vote • 2/26/2026
Committee vote: Business & Insurance
Yes: 7 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/06/2026
5/6/2026SenateSent to Governor
4/29/2026SenateSigned, returned to Senate
4/29/2026HouseEnrolled, to House
4/29/2026SenateReferred for enrollment
4/28/2026SenateSigned, returned to Senate
4/28/2026HouseThird Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 0
4/28/2026HouseGeneral Order
4/28/2026HouseCR; Do Pass Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee
4/14/2026HouseCoauthored by Senator(s) Burns
4/7/2026HousePolicy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Insurance
4/7/2026HouseReferred to Insurance
3/31/2026HouseSecond Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight
3/31/2026HouseFirst Reading
3/30/2026HouseEngrossed to House
3/30/2026SenateReferred for engrossment
3/26/2026SenateMeasure passed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 1
3/26/2026SenateGeneral Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
3/26/2026SenateCoauthored by Senator Bullard
3/26/2026SenateCoauthored by Representative Marti (principal House author)
3/16/2026SenatePlaced on General Order
3/3/2026SenateReported Do Pass Business and Insurance committee; CR filed
2/26/2026SenateSecond Reading referred to Business and Insurance
2/3/2026SenateAuthored by Senator Gollihare
2/2/2026SenateFirst Reading
2/2/2026Senate
Bill Text
Enrolled (final version)
4/28/2026
Floor (House)
4/15/2026
House Committee Report
4/14/2026
House Policy Committee Report
4/7/2026
Engrossed
3/30/2026
Floor (Senate)
3/2/2026
Senate Committee Report
2/26/2026
Introduced
1/8/2026
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