All Roll Calls
Yes: 174 • No: 29
OklahomaSB 805Oklahoma 2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Professions and occupations; enacting the Dietitian Licensure Compact; authorizing the Governor to enter into Compact with certain jurisdictions. Effective date.
Sponsored By: Adam Pugh (Republican)
Became Law
Senate Committee
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7 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 4 mixed.
Dietitians gain access to interstate practice
Beginning November 1, 2025, Oklahoma law enacts the Dietitian Licensure Compact and authorizes the Governor to join participating states. The compact becomes operative when seven states enact it. Eligible dietitians can practice across member states, including through telehealth, without getting a separate full license in each state. They follow their home state's continuing education rules, not additional continuing education rules in states where they use compact privileges.
Military dietitians keep home license choices
An active-duty military member or spouse can choose a home state where they hold a current dietitian license in good standing. They can keep that home-state choice throughout the service member's active duty, including during deployment or relocation.
Dietitians face screening and practice fees
Oklahoma dietitian exam applicants must submit fingerprints for a national criminal history check through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The board keeps the results, uses them only to screen applicants, and does not share them. Member states must establish state and FBI criminal-history checks for initial compact privileges, using fingerprints or other biometric information. Commission rules set the screening rollout timetable. States may charge compact privilege fees, and applicants must pay applicable fees; the law sets no amounts. Oklahoma retains authority over reasonable licensing, renewal, and disciplinary fees. Complete exam applications require a qualification notice within 45 days, and no later than 30 days before the next exam.
Dietitians get transition time when states leave
A state can leave by repealing the compact; withdrawal takes effect 180 days after enactment. It must notify its licensees and recognize compact privileges for at least 180 days after the withdrawal notice. A majority of member-state delegates can terminate a state for an unresolved default after other compliance efforts are exhausted. A terminated state must notify its licensees and recognize privileges for at least six months after the termination notice. These periods preserve practice temporarily, but recognition can end afterward.
Interstate dietitian practice carries eligibility safeguards
Dietitians need an unrestricted home-state license to use a compact privilege, which expires with that license. Eligibility includes a home-state qualification route or an education, supervised-practice, and exam route. The education route generally requires an accredited graduate degree, at least 1,000 supervised hours, and an approved national exam. That exam must be passed within five years before initial licensure, followed by continuous licensure under compact rules. Dietitians must notify the commission and meet each practice state's laws and any test on those laws. They must report adverse actions or license restrictions from nonmember states within 30 days. A practice state can discipline the privilege there; only the home state can discipline the underlying license. A home-state license restriction revokes privileges across all member states until the restriction is removed.
Moving dietitians must change home licenses
A dietitian can have only one home state under the compact. After moving between member states, the dietitian must notify both states, apply in the new state, and pay applicable fees. The new state verifies compact eligibility and applies relevant criminal-history checks and any test on state practice laws. Once the new license starts, the former home-state license becomes a compact privilege. Dietitians who do not qualify for the compact may seek a single-state license under the new state's requirements.
Dietitians face shared oversight with privacy safeguards
An interstate commission, with one voting delegate per member state, runs the compact and a shared licensing data system. States must submit required license, discipline, denial, investigation, and nonconfidential alternative-program information, even when state law says otherwise. Significant investigation details stay limited to member states; states can restrict public release, and legally expunged information must be removed. System records can serve as authenticated business records in member-state proceedings. States can share investigations, continue them after a move, and recover investigation costs when state law allows. States may use nondisciplinary monitoring or treatment programs instead of discipline. Commission rules have legal force without usual state rulemaking steps, but courts can block conflicts with state practice laws. Legislatures retain authority to reject rules through the compact's procedures. The commission can charge licensee fees and state assessments under a published formula to fund operations, data systems, and audits. It must maintain financial records and annual audits; members and staff receive immunity and indemnification for work within their official duties.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Adam Pugh
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Osburn
Affiliation unavailable
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/21/2025
FOURTH READING
Yes: 28 • No: 12
House vote • 4/30/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 80 • No: 6
House vote • 4/24/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 14 • No: 2
House vote • 4/8/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/12/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 35 • No: 8
Senate vote • 2/17/2025
THE OKLAHOMA
Yes: 8 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Becomes law without Governor's signature 05/28/2025
5/28/2025SenateSent to Governor
5/21/2025SenateSigned, returned to Senate
5/21/2025HouseEnrolled, to House
5/21/2025SenateReferred for enrollment
5/21/2025SenateMeasure passed: Ayes: 28 Nays: 12
5/21/2025SenateHAs adopted
5/21/2025SenateHAs read
5/1/2025SenateEngrossed, signed, to Senate
5/1/2025HouseReferred for engrossment
4/30/2025HouseThird Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 80 Nays: 6
4/30/2025HouseGeneral Order
4/30/2025HouseCR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee
4/24/2025HousePolicy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Business
4/8/2025HouseReferred to Business
4/1/2025HouseSecond Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight
4/1/2025HouseFirst Reading
3/13/2025HouseEngrossed to House
3/13/2025SenateReferred for engrossment
3/12/2025SenateMeasure passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 8
3/12/2025SenateGeneral Order, Considered
3/12/2025SenateCoauthored by Representative Osburn (principal House author)
2/26/2025SenatePlaced on General Order
2/20/2025SenateReported Do Pass as amended Health and Human Services committee; CR filed
2/17/2025SenateSecond Reading referred to Health and Human Services
2/4/2025Senate
Bill Text
Enrolled (final version)
5/21/2025
Amended And Engrossed
5/1/2025
Floor (House)
4/24/2025
House Committee Report
4/24/2025
House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill
4/24/2025
House Policy Committee Report
4/8/2025
Engrossed
3/13/2025
Floor (Senate)
2/19/2025
Senate Committee Report
2/17/2025
Introduced
1/15/2025
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