| HB1335 | Paraphrase: | requires health benefit plans, including the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, offered or renewed after Jan. 1, 2010, to provide coverage for colorectal cancer exams and laboratory tests for cancer for nonsymptomatic individuals. It directs the third-party reimbursement rate for nonsymtomatic screening to be at the greater of the existing Medicare or Medicaid rate. It also requires such plans to provide coverage for ovarian cancer exams and laboratory tests for cancer, including nonsymptomatic individuals and establishes the third-party reimbursement rate at the greater of the existing Medicare or Medicaid rate. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Lee Denney (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1339 | Paraphrase: | requires all individual and group health insurance policies that provide coverage on an expense-incurred basis, all individual or group service or indemnity type contracts issued by a nonprofit corporation, including the Oklahoma State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board, to provide coverage for mammography or other breast cancer screening. It states that women under age 40 are entitled to coverage for mammography or other breast cancer screening once every five years or annually if the treating physician determines that the woman is at high risk for breast cancer. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Dennis Ray Bailey (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1458 | Paraphrase: | creates the Funeral Services Licensing Act. The bill allows the insurance commissioner to deny issuance of a funeral services license to organizations that present misrepresentations on applications and to organizations that fraudulently obtain licenses for others. The bill allows the commissioner to approve or deny an application if an organization does not meet all qualifications. The bill directs organizations to display licenses at all times on the organizations' premises and prohibits the display or use of a license by persons not authorized to represent an organization in contracting prepaid funeral benefits. The bill allows the commissioner to issue renewal permits to organizations prior to the one-year period expiration of the license if good cause is shown. The bill prohibits the transfer of permits and requires selling organization to notify the commissioner 45 days prior to transfer using a form provided by the commissioner. The bill allows the commissioner to waive notice requirement. The bill requires the acquiring organization to make permit application at least 30 days prior to transfer and must be issued a permit before the selling organization relinquishes control of the organization's trust. The bill prohibits acquiring organizations from accessing trust funds until authorized by the commissioner and can be denied transfer of the trust. The bill allows the commissioner to assume the role of acting trust conservator. The bill also requires the net value of a contract to be determined by adding the amount of all principal paid plus all payable interest less taxes and administrative fees and prohibits withdrawals or transfers less than the original principal collected prior to death except accounts with reduced principals caused by cash withdrawals. The bill requires selling organizations to forward to the acquiring organization the net value of a contract plus monies from the first funds collected if a request is made in writing. The bill directs to furnish a cash bond, letter of credit or fidelity bond approved by the commissioner in the greater amount of $25,000.00 or 15 percent of all funds collected. The bill requires prepaid funeral contracts negotiated after Nov. 1, 2009, to contain a price list of actual service costs at the time of delivery. The bill requires organizations to submit to the commissioner the name of an agent responsible for funds deposits at least 10 days prior to becoming subject to the act and to notify the commissioner of any agent changes at least 10 days prior to the change. The bill requires persons collecting money for an organization to deposit the funds within 10 days of receipt and makes violation a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 and/or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one month nor more than six months. The bill requires the commissioner to prescribe rules for steps required to convert prepaid funeral benefit contracts funded by a trust to prepaid funeral benefits funded by insurance. In the Senate, the bill was amended to require that each organization subject to the provisions furnish a bond in the form of a cash bond, letter of credit or fidelity bond to be approved by the insurance commissioner. It states the bonds must be of $25,000 for insurance only or $25,000, or 15 percent of all trust funds collected, for prepaid funeral benefits, not to exceed $600,000 for those that have trust-only or a combination of trust and insurance. It also strikes language stating that non-specified prepaid funeral benefit contracts negotiated after Nov. 1, 2009, are to contain a price list. It also states all such price lists reflecting the actual retail cost of funeral services and merchandise used at the time of the delivery of services must be retained for a period of at least three years. In the Senate, the bill was further amended to require insurance companies to provide coverage for colorectal examinations. The CCR replaces the previous language with language increasing from $15,000 to $20,000 the maximum amount of principal an organization may receive from any one individual under a contract for prepaid funeral benefits. It allows the maximum allowable amount of principal for subsequent years to be increased annually by a percentage equal to the previous year's increase in the national Consumer Price Index. It directs the insurance commissioner to determine the amount of the increase, if any, on April 1 of each year. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Daniel Sullivan (H), Harry Coates (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/08/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB1699 | Paraphrase: | creates the RIGHTTRACK Act to use the calculation of body mass index as a tool in screening and identifying children who may be at risk for poor nutrition. The bill authorizes local school districts to implement such a program that would provide each student's parent or guardian with a confidential health report that includes the result of the student's BMI for age screening, along with basic educational information explaining the results and calling for the provision of a physical exam for that student under certain scores. The bill creates the RIGHTTRACK Oversight Committee to provide all procedures, information and instructional support necessary to implement these requirements. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Richard Morrissette (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2688 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to required insurance coverage for mammography screening, stating that such coverage is not subject to modification by insurers based upon studies or recommendations of medical research entities without specific approval of the Legislature. It states that any female under age 35 is entitled to coverage for mammography screening, provided it is prescribed by a physician based on physical findings or a genetic predisposition to breast cancer. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Lucky Lamons (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HJR1035 | Paraphrase: | proposes a constitutional amendment modifying appropriation limitations from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund. It directs that 10 percent of the fund is to be expended by the Legislature on adult stem cell research. In the Senate, the section calling a November 2009 special election was removed. In the Senate, the bill also was amended to allow the Oklahoma umbilical cord blood bank to be funded from the 10 percent of the fund. | ||
| Principal Authors: | John Enns (H), Clark Jolley (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 03/11/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0260 | Paraphrase: | creates the Intractable Pain Treatment Act, allowing a physician to prescribe or administer a controlled dangerous substance to a person in the course of his/her treatment of the person for intractable pain. The bill prohibits a hospital or other health care facility from prohibiting or restricting the use of a controlled dangerous substance prescribed by a physician who has staff privileges at the hospital or facility for a person diagnosed and treated by him/her for intractable pain. It authorizes a physician to treat a patient with an acute or chronic painful medical condition with a controlled dangerous substance. The measure requires the physician to undertake certain procedures to ensure the appropriateness of the treatment. The bill also exempts physicians from disciplinary action by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision or the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners for prescribing or administering a controlled dangerous substance in the course of treating a person with intractable pain. It also establishes the Intractable Pain Treatment Advisory Committee to advise the Board of Pharmacy on matters relating to intractable pain treatment. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jay Paul Gumm (S), John Carey (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0263 | Paraphrase: | creates Steffanie's Law for Clinical Trial Access, requiring any health benefit plan, including the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, that is offered or renewed on or after Jan. 1, 2010, to provide coverage for routine patient care costs incurred as a result of the patient's participation in phases one through four of cancer clinical trials under certain conditions. It allows health benefit plans to impose deductibles, coinsurance requirements and other cost-sharing provisions. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Tom Adelson (S), Sean Burrage (S), Kenneth Corn (S), Judy Eason McIntyre (S), Jay Paul Gumm (S), Charlie Laster (S), Debbe Leftwich (S), Andrew Rice (S), Joe Sweeden (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0323 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Act, directing the Oklahoma Department of Health to create a comprehensive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) state plan that outlines sustainable solutions for reducing the burden of COPD in Oklahoma. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Tom Adelson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0326 | Paraphrase: | requires health benefit plans, including the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, to provide rather than offer coverage for colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests for coverage issued or renewed on or after Jan. 1, 2010. The bill also modifies the definition of "health benefit plan" to eliminate the exemption given plans offered under the state Medicaid program. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Debbe Leftwich (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0344 | Paraphrase: | directs the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to provide coverage for hospice services for terminally ill beneficiaries under the state Medicaid program. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0434 | Paraphrase: | directs the Department of Health to provide a cancer patient navigation program to provide education about and assistance with the management of cancer. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Judy Eason McIntyre (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0720 | Paraphrase: | authorizes the Oklahoma Tax Commission to design and issue Folds of Honor Supporter License Plates. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Don Barrington (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0732 | Paraphrase: | creates a nine-member task force to study the medicinal uses of Delta-9-Tetra-Hydrocannabinol until July 1, 2010. It requires the task force to submit a report to the governor and leaders of the legislator by July 1, 2010. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Constance Johnson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0839 | Paraphrase: | requires any individual or group health benefit plan that is offered or renewed after Jan. 1, 2010, including the State and Education Employees Group Insurance Plan, and provides coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment provide coverage for a prescribed, orally administered anticancer medication used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered by medical benefits. The bill also creates the Medical Care for the Uninsured Revolving Fund as a revolving fund for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. The bill states the fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of monies received by the OHCA from state and federal funds. It allows for all monies accrued to the fund to be appropriated, budgeted and expended by the OHCA for the purpose of serving as administrator and collector for all charges for medical services for uninsured persons in the state. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Debbe Leftwich (S), David Derby (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0911 | Paraphrase: | abolishes the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission and transfers all of its assets, liabilities, records and property to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. The bill also repeals language related to the organization of the ABLE Commission. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Anthony Sykes (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 01/01/2011 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0944 | Paraphrase: | directs the Oklahoma Tax Commission to deposit revenue from the sale of the emergency medical technician license plate to the Emergency Medical Technician Death Benefit Revolving Fund. | ||
| Principal Authors: | John Sparks (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1024 | Paraphrase: | requires health benefit plans, including the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, issued or renewed on or after Jan. 1, 2010, to provide coverage for evidence-based and cost-efficient preventative screenings and services for colorectal cancer. It also directs that the third-party reimbursement rate be the existing Medicare or Medicaid rate, whichever is greater. | ||
| Principal Authors: | John Sparks (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1027 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to bone marrow donations. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Earl Garrison (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1036 | Paraphrase: | creates a task force to study smoking in public places. It stipulates that the task force will look into the laws of other states, the health effects of public smoking, the economic impact of smoking bans on local businesses and make policy recommendations on ways to improve the state's smoking laws. It also stipulates that there shall be eight members who are to receive staff support from the Department of Health. | ||
| Principal Authors: | David Myers (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 09/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/22/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1065 | Paraphrase: | makes adjustments to the apportionment of funds from tobacco taxes. Effective Jul. 1 2009, it increases from 7.5 percent 8.89 percent the amount allocated to Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund. It stipulates that 2.5 percent be allocated to various emergency services. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Charles Wyrick (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1171 | Paraphrase: | requires the State Department of Health to promulgate rules to regulate tanning facilities. The bill prohibits individuals age 13 and under from use tanning facilities without a written order from a physician licensed in this state and without being accompanied by a parent or legal guardian for every use of the tanning facility. The bill requires that tanning facilities to disclose and post certain warnings and information. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Debbe Leftwich (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1298 | Paraphrase: | authorizes the Oklahoma Tax Commission to design and issue the Oklahoma State Capitol Restoration license plate for people wishing to demonstrate support for restoration of the state Capitol building. It creates Oklahoma Friends of the Capitol License Plate Revolving Fund, which is to receive a portion of the fee collected from the issuance of the plate. It allows the Department of Central Services to spend such fees for the restoration of the Capitol. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jay Paul Gumm (S), John Carey (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1395 | Paraphrase: | creates the Empowering Patient Decision Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Tom Adelson (S), Colby Schwartz (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1596 | Paraphrase: | states legislative intent to provide consumers with better access to nutritional information about prepared foods sold at food facilities. It creates the Healthy Choices Act, directing food facilities beginning July 1, 2011, and ending Dec. 31, 2012, to disclose nutritional information, establishing methods for sit-down service facilities and facilities with drive-through areas. It requires every food facility that provides a menu, uses an indoor menu board, uses a display tag or has a drive-through area to disclose calorie content information for standard menu items in a size and typeface that is clear and conspicuous beginning on and after Jan. 1, 2013. The measure states that the act cannot be construed to create or enhance any claim, right of action or civil liability that did not previously exist. It gives enforcement authority to local enforcement agencies. It provides penalties for violations beginning July 1, 2011. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Randy Bass (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1754 | Paraphrase: | modifies language and statutory references related to the classification of certain drugs. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Debbe Leftwich (S), Lee Denney (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/20/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1917 | Paraphrase: | authorizes the Oklahoma Tax Commission to design and issue a Downed Bikers Association, and it moves language authorizing an Armed Forces Veterans motorcycle license plate. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Cliff Aldridge (S), Gary Banz (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/28/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1919 | Paraphrase: | allows a tax credit for tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2010, for any taxpayer who makes a donation to a cancer research institute. The bill prohibits a taxpayer from claiming more than one credit for a donation to any independent biomedical research institute and one credit for a donation to a cancer research institute. The bill also eliminates outdated language. The bill also decreases from $2 million to $1 million the figure to be used in the formula to calculate the credit for donations to an independent biomedical research institute, and it implements a formula to be used to calculate the credit for donations to a cancer research institute. It removes language placing no limits on credits to independent biomedical research institutes. The measure also institutes a new formula for the Tax Commission to use in calculating credits for donations in excess of $1 million. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jonathan Nichols (S), Randy Terrill (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 01/01/2011 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/14/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2054 | Paraphrase: | authorizes the insurance commissioner to require any entity obligated to submit or file documents with the Department of Insurance to electronically file the documents. The bill also clarifies language in the Oklahoma Insurance Code and removes outdated language. The bill also eliminates the requirement to certain funds collected be paid to the state treasury for credit to the General Revenue Fund. The bill eliminates the requirement that the Department of Insurance mail an affidavit of exempt status under the Workers' Compensation Act form to those requesting it but requires the department to make the form available on its Web site. The bill requires insurers that use credit information to provide certain information if the consumer's credit information has been directly influenced by certain events. The bill permits a nonresident life or accident and health insurance broker applicant to receive a license in Oklahoma if they are licensed and in good standing in their home state and if the applicant's home state awards nonresident licenses to Oklahoma residents on the same basis. The bill modifies language related to health benefit plans and eliminates group policies applicable to less than 50 people from the definition. The bill removes commercial lines insurance risks or portions thereof that are not rated according to manual, rating plans or schedules, including "a" rates, from the exemption from review requirements. It creates the Unauthorized Insurers and Surplus Lines Insurance Act. It modifies language referring to surplus line insurers. It requires all licensed administrators to file an annual report for the previous calendar year reviewed by a certified public accountant who shall be independent of the administrator. The bill adds advisory board or advisory organizations to the list of organizations that are required to make loss runs or claims history available to current and former policyholders within thirty 30 days upon a written request by the policyholder. The bill permits a nonresident life or accident and health insurance broker applicant to receive an Oklahoma license if they are licensed and in good standing in their home state, and if the home state of the applicant awards nonresident licenses to residents of Oklahoma on the same basis. The bill amends the Genetic Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act to certain acts on the basis of genetic information. The bill also permits health benefit plans to provide coverage other than those required by law for mental health and substance use disorders. The bill also provides that treatment limitations for mental health and substance abuse disorder benefits will be no more restrictive than the predominant treatment limitations substantially applied to all medical and surgical benefits covered by the plan and that there shall be no separate treatment limitations applicable only to mental health or substance abuse disorder benefits. The bill requires the board to develop a plan to end the business of the Oklahoma Small Employer Health Reinsurance Program. The bill requires the board to submit the plan to the insurance commissioner for approval within 120 days of the effective date of the program's repeal and requires that the plan include, but not be limited to, an accounting of the funds and expenses of the Oklahoma Small Employer Health Reinsurance Program and a detailed description of the method of reimbursement of any funds or monies from the initial assessment to any reinsuring carriers. The bill modifies certain reporting requirements related to medical professional liability insurance policy claims. The bill permits a professional employer organization, or PEO, to use a qualified assurance organization as approved by the commissioner to provide services related to the registration of the PEO. The bill also repeals requirements that copies of volunteer fire department ordinances be submitted to the insurance commissioner. The bill also repeals additional language concerning the Small Employer Health Insurance Reform Act. The bill repeals language related to the application for license as a service warranty association. In the House, the bill was amended to remove the repealer of language under the Service Warranty Insurance Act related to application for license as a service warranty association. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Bill Brown (S), Daniel Sullivan (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/06/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2113 | Paraphrase: | amends, merges, consolidates and repeals duplicate sections of law. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Patrick Anderson (S), Rex Duncan (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 03/03/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2133 | Paraphrase: | eliminates the Oklahoma Task Force to Eliminate Health Disparities. The bill also changes the name of the Office of Minority Health within the State Department of Health to the Office of Multicultural Health and directs it to be responsible for ensuring improved access to and communication among health care entities throughout the state about health services, health status and health outcomes for culturally and ethnically diverse communities facing health disparities. It states that the bill is contingent upon the availability of funds. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Constance Johnson (S), Jeannie McDaniel (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB2135 | Paraphrase: | prohibits any licensed health care facility from requiring a physician referral before providing mammography services and allows the State Department of Health to fine any such health care facility. The bill also prohibits any group health insurance plan from requiring the referral of a physician or other health care provider for the coverage of a mammogram. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Constance Johnson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SJR0049 | Paraphrase: | proposes a constitutional amendment to establish six-year terms for members appointed to the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College and all agricultural and mechanical schools and colleges maintained by the state; the board of directors of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund; the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents; the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education; the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges; the Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission; the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission; and the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission. It limits members to two full six-year terms in succession. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Gary Michael Stanislawski (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/08/2010 | Current Status: | Senate Committee - Do Pass Failed | |
| Committee: | General Government (S) | |||