All Roll Calls
Yes: 267 • No: 116
OklahomaSB 889Oklahoma 2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Hospitals; requiring hospitals to make public certain file and list; authorizing compliance monitoring and enforcement; prohibiting certain collection actions. Effective date.
Sponsored By: Casey Murdock (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Senate Committee
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Patients gain hospital debt collection protections
Beginning November 1, 2025, hospitals cannot pursue collection for care received or purchased while materially violating the price-transparency law. This protects patients and guarantors, who are people responsible for paying a patient's debt. Patients or guarantors facing collection can sue over care provided on or after that date, and collection stops during the case. The case determines whether the hospital's serious failure on the service date relates to the billed care. After a judge or jury finds that failure, the hospital must refund amounts paid by the payor and pay a penalty equal to the total debt. It must also permanently dismiss related court cases, pay reasonable attorney fees and costs, and remove related credit-report entries. Hospitals can still send bills, and the law does not require refunds when no prohibited collection action occurred.
Patients get public hospital price lists
Beginning November 1, 2025, Oklahoma hospitals licensed by the state or run by state agencies must publish hospital prices. They must post a computer-readable file covering all items and services, plus a shopper-friendly list of at least 300 services. The shopper list must include federal-designated services the hospital offers and identify those it does not offer. The full file must show listed prices, cash discounts, insurer-and-plan rates, lowest and highest negotiated rates, and billing codes. The shopper list must show similar details, with a cash price or listed price and plain-language descriptions. Prices must identify the hospital location and inpatient or outpatient setting where relevant. Both lists must be prominent, searchable, free, available without login, and updated at least yearly with a visible update date. Hospitals must use computer-readable formats such as XML, JSON, or CSV and follow required federal file-naming rules. Hospitals may also offer online cost estimators showing expected patient costs, including related services; these must be prominent and require no login. The State Department of Health monitors compliance through reviews and website audits, requires correction plans, and can impose and publish penalties. These rules help patients compare prices but do not set hospital prices.
Hospitals leave earlier price transparency rules
Beginning November 1, 2025, Oklahoma's earlier price-transparency law no longer defines hospitals as health care facilities. Requirements that apply through that definition therefore no longer cover hospitals. Hospitals remain subject to this law's separate requirements to publish hospital charges.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Casey Murdock
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Banning
Affiliation unavailable
Micheal Bergstrom
Republican • Senate
David Bullard
Republican • Senate
Cantrell
Affiliation unavailable
Chapman
Affiliation unavailable
Cornwell
Affiliation unavailable
Dusty Deevers
Republican • Senate
Ford
Affiliation unavailable
Avery Frix
Republican • Senate
Randy Grellner
Republican • Senate
Brian Guthrie
Republican • Senate
Warren Hamilton
Republican • Senate
Hildebrant
Affiliation unavailable
Humphrey
Affiliation unavailable
Shane Jett
Republican • Senate
Lepak
Affiliation unavailable
Luttrell
Affiliation unavailable
May
Affiliation unavailable
Julie McIntosh
Republican • Senate
Olsen
Affiliation unavailable
Roberts
Affiliation unavailable
Kendal Sacchieri
Republican • Senate
Schreiber
Affiliation unavailable
Sneed
Affiliation unavailable
Staires
Affiliation unavailable
Lisa Standridge
Republican • Senate
Williams
Affiliation unavailable
Wolfley
Affiliation unavailable
Woolley
Affiliation unavailable
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/20/2025
FOURTH READING
Yes: 35 • No: 8
House vote • 5/7/2025
OKLAHOMA HOUSE OF
Yes: 68 • No: 18
House vote • 5/7/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 51 • No: 38
House vote • 5/5/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 46 • No: 46
House vote • 4/16/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 7 • No: 4
House vote • 4/9/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 3 • No: 2
Senate vote • 3/24/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 46 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/3/2025
THE OKLAHOMA
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Approved by Governor 05/23/2025
5/27/2025SenateSent to Governor
5/21/2025SenateSigned, returned to Senate
5/21/2025HouseEnrolled, to House
5/21/2025SenateReferred for enrollment
5/20/2025SenateMeasure passed: Ayes: 35 Nays: 8
5/20/2025SenateHAs adopted
5/20/2025SenateCoauthored by Senator Hamilton
5/19/2025SenateCoauthored by Senator Standridge
5/8/2025SenateCoauthored by Senator Guthrie
5/8/2025SenateHAs read
5/8/2025SenateEngrossed, signed, to Senate
5/8/2025HouseReferred for engrossment
5/7/2025HouseThird Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 51 Nays: 38
5/7/2025HouseMotion to reconsider adopted: Ayes: 68 Nays: 18
5/7/2025HouseNotice served to reconsider vote by Representative Lepak
5/5/2025HouseThird Reading, Measure failed: Ayes: 46 Nays: 46
5/5/2025HouseCoauthored by Representative(s) Cornwell, Schreiber, Chapman, May, Staires, Roberts
5/5/2025HouseGeneral Order
5/5/2025HouseCoauthored by Representative(s) Cantrell, Wolfley, Sneed, Ford, Humphrey, Williams, Woolley, Olsen, Banning, Hildebrant, Luttrell
4/16/2025HouseCR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Health and Human Services Oversight Committee
4/16/2025HousePolicy recommendation to the Health and Human Services Oversight committee; Do Pass Public Health
4/9/2025HouseReferred to Public Health
4/1/2025HouseSecond Reading referred to Health and Human Services Oversight
4/1/2025HouseFirst Reading
3/25/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled (final version)
5/21/2025
Amended And Engrossed
5/8/2025
Floor (House)
4/21/2025
House Committee Report
4/16/2025
House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill
4/16/2025
House Policy Committee Report
4/9/2025
Engrossed
3/25/2025
Floor (Senate)
3/4/2025
Senate Committee Report
3/3/2025
Introduced
1/16/2025
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