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Votes at a glance: Oklahoma House advances bills on health screenings, transportation, military infrastructure and commerce
Summary
On March 10 the Oklahoma House advanced a broad set of bills across health, transportation, military infrastructure and commercial regulation. Several measures passed with recorded roll-call tallies; the following summarizes vote results and key provisions from the House floor.
The Oklahoma House of Representatives took roll-call votes and approved a wide range of bills March 10, moving measures on cancer and mammogram screening, motor-vehicle rules, military infrastructure funding, alcohol service, and multiple administrative and policy changes.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 13-89 (mammogram screening): Requires benefit plans to cover low-dose mammography screenings, diagnostic and supplemental breast-cancer screenings without cost sharing. Final passage declared: 95 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 10-21 (motor vehicles — motorcycle provision): Annual bill to address motorcycle-related statute language; final passage declared: 89 ayes, 4 nays.
- House Bill 10-62 (alcoholic beverages — servers aged 18–20 may carry drinks in restaurants): Allows servers aged 18–21 to carry beverages to tables; final passage declared: 60 ayes, 33 nays.
- House Bill 25-16 (military infrastructure funding — program framework and revolving fund): Creates a program and revolving fund to support infrastructure on military installations; final passage declared: 90 ayes, 3 nays. House also approved the bill’s emergency designation by the required two‑thirds vote (90 ayes, 3 nays).
- House Bill 25-18 (military infrastructure funding — vehicle/revolving fund details): Companion bill to HB 25-16 establishing program mechanics and administrative housing for funds; final passage declared: 91 ayes, 3 nays. Emergency designation also approved (91 ayes, 3 nays).
- House Bill 14-19 (UTVs on higher‑speed highways): Allows certain UTVs to be operated on some U.S. highways and county roads if safety and equipment criteria are met; final passage declared: 93 ayes, 1 nay.
- House Bill 10-52 (fire department reporting modernization): Requires use of the National Emergency Information Reporting System and 48‑hour reporting for fire fatalities and burn injuries; final passage declared: 92 ayes, 2 nays.
- House Bill 10-65 (quality events incentive act — sunset extension): Extends the Quality Events Incentive Act sunset date from 2026 to 2032; final passage declared: 72 ayes, 22 nays.
- House Bill 10-84 (insurance — assignment of benefits): Restricts use of assignment-of-benefit agreements to limit invoice inflation in property/casualty claims; final passage declared: 92 ayes, 1 nay.
- House Bill 15-12 (state health-care marketplace): Authorizes the state insurance department to set up a state marketplace to assume the federal ACA marketplace; final passage declared: 90 ayes, 4 nays; emergency designation also approved (90 ayes, 4 nays).
- House Bill 12-79 (parental choice tax credit appeals): Creates an expedited appeal process for the parental choice tax credit; final passage declared: 90 ayes, 0 nays; emergency designation also approved.
- House Bill 10-85 (service-warranty consumer protections): Changes to the Service Warranty Act to standardize protections; final passage declared: 85 ayes, 6 nays.
- House Bill 10-88 (school transfer/adjacency): Allows students at K–8 schools to be automatically accepted at adjacent high schools; final passage declared: 80 ayes, 7 nays.
- House Bill 24-39 (Oklahoma Historical Society cleanup): Technical corrections to statutory language; final passage declared: 87 ayes, 12 nays.
- House Bill 21-36 (Oklahoma National Guard retirement revolving fund): Establishes a state retirement revolving fund for the National Guard to improve retention; final passage declared: 78 ayes, 11 nays.
- House Bill 28-34 (Medicaid — in‑home therapy services): Expands Medicaid coverage to in‑home physician and therapy services and raises related reimbursement to 96; final passage declared: 64 ayes, 25 nays. The House also recorded that the vote on the bill would be the emergency vote; that motion passed.
- House Bill 28-01 (antipsychotic drug prior authorization parity): Changes prior-authorization rules to allow the Health Care Authority to approve FDA‑approved atypical antipsychotics under specified conditions; final passage declared: 87 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 20-24 (Oklahoma Space Renaissance Act — appropriations/industry positioning): Seeks to create a framework to grow Oklahoma's role in the space industry; final passage declared: 73 ayes, 16 nays; emergency designation vote recorded.
Several other bills and procedural motions were considered and advanced; the House completed a long slate of third‑reading votes and adjourned to reconvene the next day.
What to watch next
Measures that passed the House will move to the Oklahoma Senate, where language (and emergency provisions) can be amended. Members frequently signaled that companion bills, fiscal notes and implementation plans (for military infrastructure funding, Medicaid payment changes, and the proposed state insurance marketplace) will require follow‑up work and possible appropriation decisions.
Note on tallies and transcript evidence
Where numeric roll-call tallies are cited above, they are taken from the House floor transcript at the time the presiding officer declared the vote. Where the transcript excerpt did not include a numeric tally for a particular final passage, the article notes passage without listing numbers.
