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SB 251 Oklahoma Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Mental health and substance abuse services; expanding types of services that qualify for certain funds; establishing certain minimum allocation. Effective date. Emergency.

SB 251 expands the types of mental health and substance abuse services eligible for funding under Oklahoma's County Community Safety Investment Fund. It adds employment, education, and housing programs to the existing categories of qualifying services, alongside treatment programs and jail diversion initiatives. The bill guarantees that every county or multi-county partnership receives at least 0.5% of the total funding pool each year. Counties must report how funds are used annually to the legislature, ensuring transparency in service allocation.
Issues: ✓ Criminal JusticeSupports Criminal JusticeExpands funding for mental health, substance abuse, employment, education, and housing services including jail diversion initiatives to reduce recidivism and support criminal justice reform.95% confidence ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareExpands mental health/substance abuse funding eligibility to include employment, education, and housing programs while guaranteeing minimum county allocations, directly advancing mental health services funding.95% confidence ✓ HousingSupports HousingBill explicitly adds housing programs to eligible services for funding under mental health/safety fund, advancing housing initiatives.95% confidence ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentBill explicitly adds employment programs to eligible services for funding, directly advancing employment-related initiatives under Labor & Employment.95% confidence
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Governor
Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action May 15, 2025
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What changed between versions

Floor (House) → Floor (Senate) · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill was revised from the House version to the Senate version, primarily changing the header information and committee report details while maintaining the core legislative text. The substantive policy provisions regarding mental health and substance abuse funding remain unchanged between the two versions.
TECHNICAL

Header changed from 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION' to 'SENATE FLOOR VERSION' with updated date formatting.

Committee report attribution changed from 'COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET' to 'COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES'.

Added Senate-specific page headers and formatting consistent with Senate floor version conventions.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
25
Key actions
6
Committee
6
May 7, 2025
Committee
Referred for enrollment
upper
May 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 6
lower
Apr 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
CR; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Committee
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee
lower
Apr 2, 2025
Committee
Referred to Appropriations and Budget Health Subcommittee
lower
Mar 18, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
lower
Mar 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Engrossed to House
upper
Mar 17, 2025
Committee
Referred for engrossment
upper
Mar 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0
upper
Feb 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported Do Pass Health and Human Services committee; CR filed
upper
Feb 3, 2025
Introduced
First Reading
upper
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Preston Stinson
Preston Stinson
RRepublican
OK
96
P
Photo of Todd Gollihare
Todd Gollihare
RRepublican
OK
12