Legislative Alert

Mental Health
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

HB1026Paraphrase:defines "covenant marriage" as a marriage between a man and a woman that is entered into with the understanding and agreement that it is a lifelong relationship. It requires parties of a covenant marriage to obtain counseling. It allows unmarried and married couples to obtain a covenant marriage designation. The bill sets forth the requirements for a declaration of intent to contract a covenant marriage. It also sets forth the circumstances under which a court may grant a divorce for a covenant marriage. The measure directs the administrative director of the courts to develop and print an information pamphlet entitled "Guide for Covenant Marriages."
 Principal Authors:Jason Nelson (H), John A. Wright (H), Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:09/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1051Paraphrase:creates the Protection Against Sexual Exploitation by Mental Health Services Provider Act, which makes a mental health services provider liable to a patient or former patient for damages for sexual exploitation if the patient suffers a physical, mental or emotional injury caused by sexual conduct with the patient, sexual exploitation of the patient or therapeutic deception of the patient. It also extends liability to the employer of the mental health services provider if he/she failed to inquire about sexual exploitation occurrences with former employers of the provider or if he/she knew the provider engaged in sexual exploitation of the patient and failed to report or take action to stop the behavior. The bill also contains language regarding the liability of mental health services providers who are members of the clergy. The measure stipulates reporting requirements and states that persons who make good faith reports as required are immune from civil or criminal liability resulting from the report.
 Principal Authors:John Carey (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1067Paraphrase:requires initial assessments by licensed mental health professionals of individuals being considered for emergency detention to include an appropriate screening and assessment process, as determined by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, designed to identify possible alcohol or drug abuse or dependency.
 Principal Authors:George Faught (H), Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/02/2009Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB1299Paraphrase:modifies language related to subsequent driving under the influence offenses. It states that being arrested for a second offense within 10 years rather than being convicted of such offense is a felony. It also removes reference to acts of driving while impaired or under the influence within 10 years of a previous conviction of second-degree murder or first-degree manslaughter and states that any person convicted of driving under the influence or while impaired after a previous conviction of second-degree murder or first-degree manslaughter is guilty of a felony.
 Principal Authors:Fred Jordan (H), Dan Newberry (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1306Paraphrase:directs municipal employees to complete a basic police courses offered by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, if required by the municipality for code enforcement.
 Principal Authors:Ken Luttrell (H), Harry Coates (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/11/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1312Paraphrase:creates Nick's Law, requiring any individual or group 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 the treatment of an autistic disorder. The bill limits treatment to that which is prescribed by the insured individual's treating physician in accordance with a treatment plan. The bill requires a diagnosis of an autistic disorder by a licensed physician or behavioral practitioner to be eligible for benefits and coverage. It limits coverage to persons under age 21. It sets a maximum benefit of $50,000 per year for behavioral therapy.
 Principal Authors:Mike Brown (H), Jay Paul Gumm (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/03/2009Current Status:House Committee - Do Not Pass
 Committee:Economic Development & Financial Services (H)
HB1316Paraphrase:modifies language related to grandparent visitation rights.
 Principal Authors:Charles Ortega (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1349Paraphrase:creates an 18-member Grandparent Caregiver Access to Services Task Force until Jan. 1, 2011, to study services provided to grandparents caring for grandchildren, study the ways other states provide information regarding available services to grandparents and make recommendations on how to help grandparents be better informed. It directs the task force to issue a report to the governor and the Legislature by Dec. 1, 2010.
 Principal Authors:Jeannie McDaniel (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1384Paraphrase:modifies what constitutes "good cause" under the Employee Security Act of 1980 to include if a claimant moved to a new location with a spouse that is a member of the U.S. military, military reserve or National Guard; is on active duty within 90 days of the date of discharge; is discharged under honorable conditions; and takes up residence more than 50 miles away from the employer. The measure also relieves employers from a benefit wage charge includes wages paid to individuals who left employment to move with their spouse who was honorably discharged or was arrested by law enforcement and held, detained or incarcerated and found guilty or pleads nolo contendere to the charges against him/her. It authorizes the Employment Security Commission to release information to employees of the Southwestern Oklahoma State University School of Business under an agreement between the school and the commission but prohibits disclosure to the public. It also allows the disclosure of information to any financial institution the commission contracts with to provide debit cards or conduct automatic or electronic fund deposits to pay unemployment benefits.
 Principal Authors:Randy McDaniel (H), Debbe Leftwich (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/11/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1409Paraphrase:makes it unlawful to be under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicating substance while in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on any public or private roadways, alleys or lanes that provide access to one or more one family or multi-family dwellings. It directs that any violation of the act be considered a misdemeanor punishable by five to 30 days in prison and/or a fine of $10 to $100.
 Principal Authors:Samson Ray Buck (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1410Paraphrase:increases from $2,500 to $5,000 the maximum acquisition allowed by state agencies conducting their own internal purchasing procedures. It increases from $10,000 to $100,000 the maximum acquisition allowed by state agencies with certified procurement officers. It also increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum allowable acquisition before state agencies are required to requisition to the state purchasing director. The measure authorizes the director of the Department of Central Services to set conditions for authorization of acquisition limits and establish the eligibility of suppliers. The bill also authorizes the state purchasing director to renegotiate existing contracts of incumbent suppliers for the purpose of obtaining more favorable terms for the state. It requires an annual report to the governor, speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate documenting the savings realized by each agency that results from the implementation of best spending practices, including mandatory statewide contracts, and documenting the reason for any failure to issue mandatory contracts for items totaling more than $5 million. It modifies language related to purchasing reporting by agency directors and modifies supplier certification requirements. In the Senate, the bill was amended to specify that the state purchasing director's annual report must also include the number of contracts issued to women and ethnic minority contractors pursuant to title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
 Principal Authors:Jason Murphey (H), Cliff Aldridge (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1412Paraphrase:modifies the definition of "false or bogus check or checks" to include electronic fund transfers. It also removes language referring to a five-day payment period for the amount due plus protest fees. It also expands penalties available for the court to administer to a person convicted of any false or bogus check violation during a suspended sentence to include imposition of a $25 fee to the victim for each check.
 Principal Authors:Jason Nelson (H), John Sparks (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1430Paraphrase:creates Juli's Law and requires anyone 18 or older arrested on a felony complaint of any defined sex act to submit to DNA testing and provides rules for the testing. The bill also deletes an exemption of testing for a previously convicted felon whose DNA is already on file.
 Principal Authors:Lucky Lamons (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1432Paraphrase:prohibits licensed medical doctors hired by the State Medical Examiner from being hired as unclassified personnel.
 Principal Authors:Lucky Lamons (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1448Paraphrase:removes the limitation of homicide crime scene cleanup for which individuals may seek funds from the Crime Victims Compensation Board for crime scene cleanup.
 Principal Authors:Ryan McMullen (H), Kenneth Corn (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1463Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption on ticket sales and complimentary tickets with a value equivalent to the charge that would otherwise been made to a performing arts event held by a tax exempt performing arts and visual arts events.
 Principal Authors:John Trebilcock (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1471Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption on sales of property or services to the American Legion.
 Principal Authors:Mike Sanders (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1488Paraphrase:modifies the definition of "basic industry" under the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act to include support, repair and maintenance service activities for the wind industry.
 Principal Authors:Dale DeWitt (H), Ron Justice (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1495Paraphrase:expands the definition of "severe mental illness" to include post-traumatic stress disorder as it relates to health benefits.
 Principal Authors:Wallace Collins (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1519Paraphrase:changes the Perspective Services for Vulnerable Adults Act to the Perspective Services for Vulnerable Persons Act and broadens sections and definitions of what constitutes a vulnerable person and what constitutes abuse, neglect or other mistreatment of that person. The bill also creates a criminal statute for anyone investigating a claim under the act who violates the act.
 Principal Authors:Scott Inman (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1531Paraphrase:allows a court to assign an attorney as a guardian ad litem when a meaningful relationship between the attorney and a child cannot be possible owing to age or disability of the child.
 Principal Authors:Samson Ray Buck (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1574Paraphrase:modifies the definition of a "person requiring treatment" under the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. It also removes the definition of "risk of harm to self or others."
 Principal Authors:Ann Coody (H), Don Barrington (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/19/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:HB1574 (C)
HB1593Paraphrase:allows the application for a concealed handgun permit to be delivered to the sheriff of any county within Oklahoma, not just the county of applicant's residence. The bill exempts any active duty or honorably discharged military or National Guard member from paying the processing fee.
 Principal Authors:Mike Reynolds (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1616Paraphrase:states that if a person is medically unstable, he or she may be transported to an appropriate medical facility for treatment by police officers.
 Principal Authors:Daniel Sullivan (H), Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/22/2009Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB1626Paraphrase:removes requirement of the district attorney's approval from access to drug courts and designates drug court teams as deciding bodies.
 Principal Authors:Anastasia Pittman (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1627Paraphrase:requires nursing home facilities to report certain serious incidents to law enforcement immediately upon discovery.
 Principal Authors:Anastasia Pittman (H), Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1636Paraphrase:modifies language related to district boards of education.
 Principal Authors:Anastasia Pittman (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1640Paraphrase:creates the Mental Health for Youth Review Act.
 Principal Authors:Anastasia Pittman (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1655Paraphrase:creates the Children's Cabinet to develop and implement coordinated state policies to improve health and welfare of children and families. The bill establishes a 15 member board and directs duties.
 Principal Authors:Joe Dorman (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1663Paraphrase:requires persons convicted of first-offense DUI be sentenced to the use of an ignition interlock device.
 Principal Authors:Joe Dorman (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1664Paraphrase:exempts awards received for participating in a competitive livestock show event from taxable income beginning after Dec. 31, 2009. The bill also exempts qualifying sales of tangible personal property made by qualifying charitable organizations.
 Principal Authors:Joe Dorman (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1685Paraphrase:makes it an unlawful employment practice to inflict an abuse work environment on an employee, and makes an employer vicariously liable for an unlawful employment practice. The bill defines conditions and terms.
 Principal Authors:Seneca Scott (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1701Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Veterans Advisory Council Act to create the council and monitor services and programs provided to Oklahoma veterans.
 Principal Authors:Richard Morrissette (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1741Paraphrase:authorizes district courts to establish a family drug court for treating children adjudicated as deprived and for treating their families who have in some way a substance abuse disorder. The bill establishes processes and provides court guidance on broad case matters, assessments and hearings. The bill creates the Family Drug Court Revolving Fund. In the Senate, the bill was amended to allow a family drug court assessment to be ordered by motion of the Department of Human Services, and it removes language specifying district courts. It also modifies language to include multiple children in a household. The CCR modifies language under the Oklahoma Children's Code regarding the Department of Human Services' responsibility to refer families to prevention and intervention-related services. It allows DHS to recommend a child be placed in protective or emergency custody or a petition be filed if the family refuses to access services directly related to the safety of the child. It also modifies the definition of "routine and ordinary medical care and treatment" to include the provision of psychotropic medications. It removes a requirement calling for the publication once a week for three weeks of notice for custody-related hearings. It also clarifies that a parent is entitled to demand a jury trial on the sole issue of termination of parental rights. The measure also states that all other hearings and proceedings, other than those to determine whether a child is deprived or to terminate parental rights, are to be conducted informally, and the rules of evidence do not apply. It retains the language regarding family drug courts. The CCR also increases from two to five the number of judicial days prior to movement of a foster child. It also allows a court to extend a period of trial reunification. It also modifies language related to orders of a referee, directing that they become effective and continue until vacated or modified upon rehearing by order of the reviewing judge. The bill modifies language regarding arrangements for a child whose custodial parent has been incarcerated. The CCR also allows proceedings under the Inpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse treatment of Minors Act to be conducted via teleconference.
 Principal Authors:Ron Peters (H), Sean Burrage (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/27/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB1744Paraphrase:creates the Children's Cabinet to develop and implement coordinated state policies to improve health and welfare of children and families. The bill establishes a 15-member board and directs duties.
 Principal Authors:Ron Peters (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1758Paraphrase:requires schools that do not make Adequate Yearly Progress for three consecutive years and are identified for school improvement to adopt a school uniform dress code for that school. The bill states that when a school is no longer identified as a school in need of improvement, the local school district may determine whether to retain the dress code. The measure also allows each district board the option of requiring students with behavioral problems to attend student adjustment centers which may be built as separate facilities in order to separate students with said problems from those students in regular buildings.
 Principal Authors:John Enns (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1771Paraphrase:exempts sales of tangible personal property or services to an organization which is exempt from certain federal taxation from Oklahoma sales tax.
 Principal Authors:Paul D. Roan (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1802Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption on sales of property or services to a tax-exempt organization with the primary purpose of operating one or more senior citizen centers.
 Principal Authors:Steve Martin (H), John Ford (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/23/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:HB1802 - Senate to GCCA (2010) (C)
HB1836Paraphrase:modifies penalties for domestic abuse against pregnant women with knowledge of the pregnancy, making such an act a felony, punishable by imprisonment with the Department of Corrections for two to 10 years. It also adjusts penalties for domestic abuse that results in great bodily injury, requiring a sentence of at least 10 years.
 Principal Authors:Rebecca Hamilton (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1841Paraphrase:creates Nick's Law, requiring any individual or group 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 the treatment of an autistic disorder. The bill limits treatment to that which is prescribed by the insured individual's treating physician in accordance with a treatment plan that encompasses the curriculum of the National Institute on Developmental Delays. The bill requires a diagnosis of an autistic disorder by a licensed physician or behavioral practitioner to be eligible for benefits and coverage. It limits coverage to persons under age 21. It sets a maximum benefit of $75,000 per year for behavioral therapy.
 Principal Authors:Wallace Collins (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB1892Paraphrase:modifies the definition of "strangulation" to include a form of asphyxia characterized by the closure of the nostrils or mouth as a result of external pressure on the head.
 Principal Authors:Pam Peterson (H), Glenn Coffee (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/22/2009Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB1908Paraphrase:removes existing definitions and provides new definitions under the Oklahoma Pharmacy Act. It increases from $1,000 to $3,000 the fine for persons convicted of violations at Board of Pharmacy hearings and allows the board to impose the payment of costs expended for legal fees and costs. The measure also authorizes the board to acquire by purchase, lease, gift or solicitation of gift real, personal or mixed property. It increases from $150 to $250 the fee for applications. It requires assistant pharmacists to meet the same requirements for pharmacists. The measure modifies penalties for manufacturing, packaging or wholesaling dangerous drugs. It makes it unlawful for any person, business or entity to knowingly violate a board order or agreed order, compromise the security of licensure examination materials or fail to notify the board of an address change within 10 days. It modifies penalties for violations of the Oklahoma Pharmacy Act, the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act or who has committed other illegal acts.
 Principal Authors:Doug Cox (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2004Paraphrase:includes methods on mental illness symptoms identification and mental health issues in preservice programs developed by the Commission for Teacher Preparation. The bill requires school administrators, teachers and other school employees to be trained to recognize, accommodate and assist students with mental health issues. The CCR removes the requirement that the preservice programs be developed by the Commission for Teacher Preparation. The CCR also removes the requirement that current school administrators, teachers and other school employees to be trained to recognize, accommodate and assist students with mental health issues.
 Principal Authors:Harold Wright (H), Gary Michael Stanislawski (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:06/07/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB2018Paraphrase:modifies language related to school district discipline policies.
 Principal Authors:Ann Coody (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2074Paraphrase:provides a tax exemption for the sales of tangible personal property or services made to a rural road improvement district formed pursuant to the Oklahoma Rural Road Improvement District Act when the items are to be used to construct or maintain a road within the rural road improvement district making the purchase.
 Principal Authors:Skye McNiel (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2075Paraphrase:creates a 13-member Advisory Committee for the Oklahoma Housing Trust Fund. The bill directs the committee to research and review statewide housing needs, staff funding recommendations and performance outcomes of the Oklahoma Housing Trust Fund. It also prohibits the committee from having any role in fiscal policies or any oversight of the Oklahoma Housing Finance Authority.
 Principal Authors:Dan Kirby (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:03/11/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2081Paraphrase:requires that individuals who arrested and subsequently charged with a felony offense to submit to DNA test. It requires that DNA samples be taken by properly trained employees or contractors of federal, state, county or municipal law enforcement or criminal justice agencies. It provides immunity for said contractors and employees from civil liabilities arising from collection activities. The bill directs that DNA collections be sent to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation within ten days using kits provided by OSBI. The bill also provides for reimbursement of the $150 DNA test fee and for expungement of the record for subjected individuals who are found not guilty.
 Principal Authors:Paul Wesselhoft (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2090Paraphrase:provides for a five-year sunset for all sales tax exemptions enacted on or after July 1, 2009. It exempts from the sunset an exemption for the sale of groceries.
 Principal Authors:Dan Kirby (H), Gary Michael Stanislawski (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2117Paraphrase:creates the Green Quality Jobs Act of 2009. It states the a benefit shall be paid to certain industry groups, such as those in manufacturing and construction activities associated with wind and solar energy, manufacture or conversion of vehicles that run on compressed natural gas, and manufacture of components of filling stations for compressed natural gas. The bill states that the benefit amount shall be equal to 5 percent of gross payroll. It also requires that companies have an annual gross payroll for new direct jobs projected by the Department to equal or exceed $1,200,000 within three years of the first complete calendar quarter following the start date and have a number of full-time-equivalent employees working an average of 30 or more hours per week in new direct jobs equal to or in excess of 80 of the total number of new direct jobs.
 Principal Authors:Mike Brown (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2121Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Veterans Treatment Court Pilot Program for the purpose of establishing a veterans' treatment court, similar to the current drug court program, in each district court of this state located within counties with a population of at least 100,000. It directs district courts to establish a one-year pilot program with annual review. It also states that any district court that has implemented a court program or court docket specifically providing for the treatment of veterans for substance abuse or mental health problems shall be exempt from the provisions of the Oklahoma Veterans Treatment Pilot Program. The bill establishes requirements for individuals in veterans' court and establishes procedures for the courts.
 Principal Authors:Mike Shelton (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2137Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Military Veterans and Mental Health Act of 2009.
 Principal Authors:Mike Shelton (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2152Paraphrase:establishes a sales tax exemption for private organizations that provide grants for no-profit organizations, public schools, municipalities for charitable education purposes.
 Principal Authors:Don Armes (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2168Paraphrase:provides that any plea of guilty or finding of guilt for certain assault violations shall constitute a conviction for a period of 10 years following the completion of any court imposed probationary term, providing good behavior.
 Principal Authors:Mark McCullough (H), Patrick Anderson (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/16/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB2273Paraphrase:directs an agency with jurisdiction to give written notice to the attorney general and a multidisciplinary team when it appears that a person may meet the criteria of a sexually violent predator within 90 days of the release of a person convicted of a sexually violent offense, charged with such offense and who has been determined to be incompetent to stand trial or found not guilty by reason of insanity of such offense. It directs the director of the Department of Corrections to establish a multidisciplinary team to review available records of such persons referred and assess whether the person meets the definition of a sexually violent predator. The measure directs the attorney general to appoint a prosecutor's review committee to review the records of persons referred to assist in determining whether they meet the definition of a sexually violent predator. If a person is determined to meet the definition of sexually violent predator, the bill allows the attorney general to file a petition in the county where the person was convicted or charged with the offense. Upon filing of such a petition, a judge is directed to determine whether probable cause exists to believe the person is a sexually violent predator and should be taken into custody. If probable cause is found, the bill directs that a trial be held to determine whether there is clear and convincing evidence that the person is a sexually violent predator and should be committed to the custody of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for control, care and treatment until such time as the mental abnormality or personality disorder has so changed that the person is safe to be at large. The measure requires persons committed under the act to have current examinations of mental condition once every year. If the commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services determines the mental abnormality or personality disorder has so changed that he/she is not likely to engage in repeat acts of sexual violence, the bill authorizes the commissioner to petition the court for transitional release, at which point a hearing is to be held for the attorney general to show by clear and convincing evidence that the abnormality or disorder of the petitioner remains and he/she is not safe to be at large. The bill directs that a person in transitional release must once a year be examined by treatment staff. It directs that the commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services be responsible for all costs relating to the evaluation and treatment of persons committed under the act, but reimbursement may be obtained.
 Principal Authors:John Trebilcock (H)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2365Paraphrase:makes general appropriations to executive, legislative and judicial agencies for fiscal year 2011.
 Principal Authors:Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H), Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:05/06/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:GCCA (J)
HB2443Paraphrase:makes an appropriation to and sets budget limitations for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for fiscal year 2011. It also authorizes the department to expend funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
 Principal Authors:Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H), Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:05/06/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:GCCA (J)
HB2444Paraphrase:makes an appropriation to and sets budget limitations for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for fiscal year 2011. It also authorizes the department to expend funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
 Principal Authors:Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H), Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:05/06/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:GCCA (J)
HB2563Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption for any organization that provides services for abused, neglected or abandoned children and is exempt from taxation.
 Principal Authors:Marian Cooksey (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2638Paraphrase:creates the Prevention Services Consolidation Act of 2010, directing the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services with evaluating the effectiveness of prevention services in the state and to report on a plan developed to coordinate services. It requires the department to provide an annual report to the governor, House speaker and Senate president pro tempore. The bill requires the department to demonstrate a 5 percent cost savings to the state within three years. It allows the department extensive authority to modify certain programs under the Department of Human Services, Department of Health and Office of Juvenile Affairs unless they are specifically controlled by the federal government and allow for no modification. The measure creates a Citizens Advisory Board for Prevention Services to advise and make recommendations to the department.
 Principal Authors:Mark McCullough (H), Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/11/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2702Paraphrase:makes it a felony to knowingly and intentionally mistreat a vulnerable adult. The bill defines "vulnerable adult." The bill states that vulnerable adult includes any resident of an adult care home including but not limited to those facilities subject to the Residential Care Act; adult cared for in a private residence; any individual kept, cared for, treated, boarded or otherwise accommodated in a medical care facility; any individual with a developmental disability receiving services through a community mental facility or residential facility licensed pursuant to the Residential Care Act; an individual with a developmental disability receiving services provided by a community service provider; or individual kept, cared for, treated, boarded or otherwise accommodated in a state inpatient facility. Violations are punishable by imprisonment with the Department of Corrections for not less than one year and/or a fine of not more than $5,000. It provides an exception for treatment and care that is religious in nature and conducted in lieu of medical treatment.
 Principal Authors:Randy McDaniel (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2746Paraphrase:adds unlawful delivery of a controlled dangerous substance using a motor vehicle to the list of offenses for which the Department of Public Safety may revoke driving privileges. It clarifies language that revocation may occur if a motor vehicle was used in the perpetration of certain offenses.
 Principal Authors:Lee Denney (H), Jim Halligan (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/10/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB2776Paraphrase:creates a presumption that the best interest of the public is served by disclosing information when a person responsible for the care of a vulnerable adult is charged or indicted with committing a crime resulting in the death or near death of the adult. It directs disclosure of the circumstances of the investigation and any other investigations concerning the vulnerable adult or others living in the same facility or involving the individual provider of services. The bill also prescribes the release of certain information seven days after the person providing care to the vulnerable adult has been criminally charged and the Department of Human Services Adult Protective Services Division, district attorney, district court clerk and judge have jurisdiction over the case. It prohibits the information from identifying or providing an identifying description of a complainant or reporter of vulnerable adult abuse or neglect, the names of other vulnerable adults in the household or facility, the name of the person responsible for caring for the adult and any other member of the facility or household.
 Principal Authors:Kris Steele (H), Ron Justice (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/16/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB2827Paraphrase:allows a victim of domestic violence, stalking or harassment to request a petition for an emergency temporary order of protection when a court is not open for business. It provides a definition of "stalking" under the Protection from Domestic Abuse Act and Domestic Abuse Reporting Act. It allows persons seeking a protective order under the Protection from Domestic Abuse Act to request the exclusive care, possession or control of any animal owned, leased or kept by the petitioner, defendant or minor child in the residence. It allows the court to order a defendant to make no contact with the animal. The measure also extends rights granted victims of domestic abuse to victims of rape, forcible sodomy or stalking. It allows a court to consider in determining a bond and other conditions of release certain factors, including whether the person has a history of domestic violence or other violent acts, the person's mental health, whether the person has a history of violating court orders and whether the person is a potential threat to another.
 Principal Authors:Ron Peters (H), Patrick Anderson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/16/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB2843Paraphrase:modifies language relating to the Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Facility Certificate of Need Act. The bill also adds language prohibiting the application of the act to any psychiatric or chemical dependency facility or unit with psychiatric or chemical dependency beds or services initially licensed by the State Department of Health under any name or ownership on or before June 1, 2010. It also removes language relating to the application of the act on psychiatric or chemical dependency facilities or units or any hospitals with construction cost overruns or capital expenditures. It also adds language removing the application of the act to any psychiatric or chemical dependency facility or unit with beds or services that is operated by or certified to provide psychiatric or chemical dependency services by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
 Principal Authors:Charles Joyner (H)
 Effective Date:06/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2896Paraphrase:modifies language related to the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. It adds language relating to the board's power to enter into agreements and joint financial agreements. The bill also adds language requiring certified services for an alcohol- or drug-dependent person to comply with standards adopted by the board. It also requires those standards be in compliance with approved medical and professional standards as determined by licensure and credentialing laws and regulations adopted by the state. The bill adds language requiring consumers receive treatment in compliance with the statutes and regulations of the medical and professional licensure and credentialing boards governing the various treatment providers. It also modifies the definition of "licensed mental health professional."
 Principal Authors:Purcy D. Walker (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2908Paraphrase:requires a health or mental health professional or provider who refers patients or clients to a medical services facility to provide written disclosure regarding his/her financial interest in the facility or any renumeration he/she receives.
 Principal Authors:Danny Morgan (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB2934Paraphrase:allows a court to require someone who must register under the Sex Offenders Registration Act to register any e-mail address information used for social networking or other similar Internet communications. It directs the Department of Corrections, upon the request of an Internet entity, to release such information that would allow the entity to prescreen or remove sex offenders from its services or to advise law enforcement of potential violations to law or threats to public safety. It requires DOC to update information monthly.
 Principal Authors:Ken Luttrell (H), Patrick Anderson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/10/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB2999Paraphrase:directs the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board to continue until June 30, 2013, to purchase, on a fee-for-service basis, treatment services provided by certified alcohol and drug counselors, if they are provided by certified alcohol and drug counselors employed by organizations under contract with the mental health or OHCA boards. It states that nothing in the bill prohibits the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services or the OHCA Board from initiating or terminating contracts with certified substance abuse providers, establishing contract limits, developing or modifying reimbursement schedules or otherwise managing appropriated resources on behalf of the state. The CCR adds language clarifying the terms of Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to be seven years and allows members to be re-appointed to subsequent terms. The CCR also allows rather than requires the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to maintain specific facilities in the state. It adds municipal employees to the list of persons required to make reports regarding a vulnerable adult suffering from abuse, neglect or exploitation.
 Principal Authors:Kris Steele (H), Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/10/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB3118Paraphrase:modifies language related to the Child Abuse Prevention Act.
 Principal Authors:Pat Ownbey (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB3158Paraphrase:allows the period of supervision in a drug court program to be extended by a court order. It directs a drug court judge, district attorney, attorney for the offender and supervising staff for the drug court program to evaluate the appropriateness of continued supervision on a quarterly basis. The measure limits the amount of treatment during the extended period of supervision to six months, and it prohibits treatment dollars from being expended on the offender during the extension.
 Principal Authors:Leslie Osborn (H), Ron Justice (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/10/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
HB3176Paraphrase:directs school districts beginning with the 2011-2012 school year to offer to school counselors at least once a year a program that includes a component of training in gang intervention. It requires all resident school counselors to complete the gang intervention training during the resident year and at least one time every three years thereafter, and it requires all other counselors to complete the training at least one time every three years.
 Principal Authors:Mike Shelton (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/25/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HB3264Paraphrase:removes language defining an "ignition interlock device" as it relates to certain penalties and instead defines it as a device approved by the Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence. It authorizes the board to approve ignition interlock devices and prescribe uniform standards and conditions for installation, maintenance, removal and reporting.
 Principal Authors:Sue Tibbs (H), John Ford (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/31/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
HJR1065Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Juvenile Justice Reform Committee to study and make recommendations on the state's juvenile justice code. It directs state departments, agencies and officers and employees to cooperate with the committee. It states that the committee is to be comprised of 20 members. It directs the committee to prepare a report of its recommendations on the most efficient organization, most effective transition programs, incorporation of existing statutes and updates to statutory language to the House speaker and Senate president pro tempore by Dec. 1, 2011.
 Principal Authors:Ron Peters (H), Patrick Anderson (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/19/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB0001Paraphrase:creates Nick's Law, which requires any individual or group 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 the treatment of an autistic disorder. The bill limits treatment to that which is prescribed by the insured individual's treating physician in accordance with a treatment plan. It states that coverage must include all therapies, treatments, diagnoses, testing, medicines and supplements prescribed by a licensed physician, including behavioral therapy. It sets a maximum benefit of $75,000 per year for behavioral therapy.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0018Paraphrase:establishes a penalty for persons who complete a basic police course and who within one year after certification resigns from an employing law enforcement agency and is hired by another and the person or second employing agency does not reimburse the original employing agency. The bill states that failure to provide reimbursement will result in the suspension of the person's certification under the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training until the reimbursement is provided.
 Principal Authors:Mary Easley (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0022Paraphrase:directs the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to establish and maintain a program for the agency to serve as administrator and collector for all charges for medical services for uninsured persons in the state. It requires health care providers to file all charges for medical services for uninsured persons with OHCA and grants OHCA the authority to collect such charges from the uninsured as well as override any inappropriate charges. Collected payments are to be forwarded to the health care providers, with OHCA retaining a portion of the collection to cover administrative costs. The bill also creates the Medical Care for the Uninsured Revolving Fund to consist of funds received by OHCA from state and federal funds.
 Principal Authors:Jim Wilson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0023Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Department of Aging as an agency within the executive branch to evaluate and provide public solutions to the social, economic and health issues related to aging in Oklahoma. The bill also creates the Oklahoma Commission on Aging to be the governing board of the department. It directs the transfer to the Department of Aging the powers and duties of the Aging Services Division of the Department of Human Services, the Aging and Long-Term Care Program of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Senior Health Insurance Counseling Program of the Insurance Department, the Senior Center Renovation Program of the Department of Commerce, the Transportation Program for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities of DHS, the Senior Community Service Program of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and all other programs required under the federal Older Americans Act.
 Principal Authors:Mary Easley (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0027Paraphrase:authorizes the Oklahoma Insurance Department to identify hospitals to manage or modify risk that will be under the regulation of the department. The bill states that hospitals that collect or expect to collect different fees from different persons or entities for the same medical service shall be identified as managing or modifying risk.
 Principal Authors:Jim Wilson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0034Paraphrase:directs the State Department of Health, in coordination with the Office of State Finance Information Services Division, to develop and implement a statewide electronic health records system on or before July 1, 2010. It states legislative intent that the system be compatible with the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. The measure states that health care facilities require the use of the electronic health records system. It directs facilities to remit 5 percent of the billed amount for each patient visit during which the statewide system was not used to the Oklahoma Uninsured and Underinsured Revolving Fund. The bill also creates the fund, which is to be used by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to provide medical assistance to the uninsured and underinsured.
 Principal Authors:Jim Wilson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0036Paraphrase:requires any individual or group 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 the treatment of an autistic disorder. The bill limits treatment to that which is prescribed by the insured individual's treating physician in accordance with a treatment plan. It states that coverage is subject to a diagnosis of an autistic disorder by a licensed physician or behavioral practitioner. The bill limits coverage to individuals under age 21. It states that coverage must include all therapies, treatments, diagnoses, testing, medicines and supplements prescribed by a licensed physician, including behavioral therapy. It sets a maximum benefit for behavioral therapy of $75,000 per year for three years, unless clinical progress reports demonstrate that the child is in a period of steady skill acquisition. The bill prohibits an insurer from denying or refusing coverage, terminating coverage or restricting coverage for an individual solely because he/she is diagnosed with an autistic disorder.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0046Paraphrase:requires any individual or group 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 the treatment of an autistic disorder. It states that coverage is subject to a diagnosis of an autistic disorder by a licensed physician or behavioral practitioner. The bill limits coverage to individuals under age 21. It states that coverage must include all therapies, treatments, diagnoses, testing, medicines and supplements prescribed by a licensed physician, including behavioral therapy. It sets a maximum benefit for behavioral therapy of $75,000 per year for three years, unless clinical progress reports demonstrate that the child is in a period of steady skill acquisition. The bill prohibits an insurer from denying or refusing coverage, terminating coverage or restricting coverage for an individual solely because he/she is diagnosed with an autistic disorder.
 Principal Authors:Mary Easley (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0246Paraphrase:appropriates $5.5 million to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to expand the Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services program.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0247Paraphrase:appropriates $1 million to the State Department of Health to fund the Postponing Sexual Involvement program.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0283Paraphrase:creates a Task Force on Youth Transitioning into Adulthood until Nov. 30, 2009, to study policies and programs to assist youth as they transition into adulthood through education, behavioral health, social services, housing and employment services. The bill requires the task force to submit its findings to the leaders of the House and Senate and the governor by Nov. 30, 2009. In the House, the bill was amended to adjust the number of task force members from 25 to 15. Language was also added directing the task force to generate input from providers of youth transitioning programs about issues that affect their ability to provide quality services.
 Principal Authors:Harry Coates (S), Mike Jackson (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0351Paraphrase:requires reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults to be reported to the Department of Human Services and the municipal police department or county sheriff's office.
 Principal Authors:Andrew Rice (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0398Paraphrase:requires a deduction of $50 per month from the flexible benefit allowance granted employees to be put toward health insurance premiums. The bill allows that deduction to be reduced to $25 per month if the employee is certified as a non-tobacco user or qualifies for a wellness premium discount. The measure also creates the State Employee Wellness Premium Discount Program and establishes criteria for which employees can qualify for a $25 per month wellness premium discount.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0403Paraphrase:directs the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency to develop rules to operate the Oklahoma Housing Trust Fund, including guidelines ensuring that housing supported by the fund maintain appropriate periods of affordability. It also modifies membership of the advisory committee charged assisting in administering the fund.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0404Paraphrase:authorizes the Capitol Improvement Authority to issue $100 million in obligations to provide office space for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority and the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0411Paraphrase:increases from 18 to 19 the membership of the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board to include the executive director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs.
 Principal Authors:Clark Jolley (S), Jason Nelson (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/02/2009Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB0430Paraphrase:removes the sales tax exemption given newspapers and periodicals. It limits the exclusion of transportation services provided by tourism service brokers to services before Jan. 1, 2012. The measure also limits to before Jan. 1, 2012, the sales tax exemption granted on the first $15,000 generated each year by a cultural organization established to promote educational, charitable and cultural events for disadvantaged children. It also limits to before Jan. 1, 2012, the exemption on sales to museums accredited by the American Association of Museums and the exemption on sales of tickets for admission to museums accredited by the American Association of Museums. It also limits to before Jan. 1, 2012, the sales tax exemption granted to a motion picture or television production company for property or services used in connection with an eligible production. The measure also limits to before Jan. 1, 2012, the tax exemption granted on the sales of vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements by a licensed chiropractor. It places a Jan. 1, 2012, termination date on the tax credit granted investments in an existing Oklahoma film or music project. It also limits to before Jan. 1, 2010, language allowing dividends or distributions of earnings from savings and loan associations or credit unions and interest on savings accounts and time deposits to be treated as dividends for a dividend exclusion in calculating taxable income. The measure also limits to before Jan. 1, 2010, language allowing contributions to political parties, candidates and candidate committees to be eligible for a maximum $100 income tax deduction.
 Principal Authors:Mike Mazzei (S)
 Effective Date:01/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0435Paraphrase:allows the Office of Juvenile Affairs to enter into agreements pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act under the Delinquency and Youth Gang Intervention and Prevention Act. It also removes language directing OJA to submit grant proposals.
 Principal Authors:Judy Eason McIntyre (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0447Paraphrase:prohibits the cost of copies of medical records from exceeding $50 if the person requesting the copies is applying for social security disability/supplemental security income disability benefits or is appealing a denial of such benefits.
 Principal Authors:Susan Paddack (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0475Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Department of Aging as an agency within the executive branch to evaluate and provide public solutions to the social, economic and health issues related to aging in Oklahoma. The bill also creates the Oklahoma Commission on Aging to be the governing board of the department. It directs the transfer to the Department of Aging the powers and duties of the Aging Services Division of the Department of Human Services, the Aging and Long-Term Care Program of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Senior Health Insurance Counseling Program of the Insurance Department, the Senior Center Renovation Program of the Department of Commerce, the Transportation Program for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities of DHS, the Senior Community Service Program of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and all other programs required under the federal Older Americans Act. It establishes a maximum salary of $65,000 for the secretary of aging.
 Principal Authors:Debbe Leftwich (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0479Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Interventional Pain Management and Treatment Act. The bill makes it unlawful to practice or offer to practice interventional pain management unless a person is licensed under the provisions of the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act or the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act. The measure states that the new law does not forbid the administration of lumbar intra-laminar epidural steroid injections or peripheral nerve blocks by a certified registered nurse anesthetist when requested by a physician and under the supervision of a licensed allopathic or osteopathic physician and under conditions in which timely on-site consultation by such allopathic or osteopathic physician is available. It also prohibits a certified registered nurse anesthetist from operating a freestanding pain management facility without direct supervision of a physician who is board-certified in interventional pain management or its equivalent. It also permits the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners to impose administrative penalties against any person who violates any of the provisions of the act or any rule promulgated under the act. The bill authorizes the board to initiate disciplinary and injunctive proceedings against any person who has violated any provisions of the act or any rule of the board promulgated under the act. The bill also authorizes the board to apply for relief by injunction in the established manner provided in cases of civil procedure, without bond, to enforce the provisions of the act or to restrain any violation of the act. The measure also exempts members of the board from being personally liable for proceeding under the act. It requires osteopathic physicians engaged in interventional pain management pursuant to the act to be licensed by the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners.
 Principal Authors:Clark Jolley (S), John Trebilcock (H)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/09/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB0486Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption on the sale of tangible personal property or services to a non-profit organization that is certified and designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an organization dedicated to recovering organs for transplantation in all 77 Oklahoma counties. It also provides a sales tax exemption for an organization operating as an eye bank and a charter member of the Eye Bank Association of America. The bill also provides a sales tax exemption for the sale of precious metals. In the House, the bill was amended to remove the tax exemption for the sale of precious metals. It was further amended to provide a sales tax exemption for tax-exempt organizations that provide medical care to children with severe illnesses, injuries or diseases or that are severely disabled and that derive at least 75 percent of their annual gross patient care revenues from federal and state benefit program reimbursements. The CCR removes the bill's language and replaces it with language that requires the compensation paid to a private contractor who has a contract with a county assessor for the purpose of finding property which is not on the tax rolls or is undervalued be based on actual time spent by the contractor and not on a percentage of revenue resulting from valuation.
 Principal Authors:Clark Jolley (S), Randy McDaniel (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/27/2010Current Status:Second CCR Read - House
SB0548Paraphrase:requires rather than authorizes district courts to establish drug court programs.
 Principal Authors:Earl Garrison (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0557Paraphrase:establishes a 20-member Oklahoma Juvenile Justice Reform Committee and directs it to undertake a full, good-faith and through study of Oklahoma's juvenile justice system and make recommended revisions to the Oklahoma Juvenile Justice Code in Title 10 and any other statutes. It requires the committee to submit a report to the leaders of the Legislature by Dec. 1, 2010.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0597Paraphrase:permits law enforcement officers to transport individuals to mental health facilities in another state if the nearest facility for an initial assessment or detention designated by the commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is more than 50 miles from the county seat of the county in which the person is located and when there are factors based on clinical determinations made within the state that indicate the individuals are and treatment would be facilitated or improved by the out-of-state facility. The bill requires that the out-of-state facility be designated or accredited by the mental health authorities of that state as an appropriate facility for an initial assessment or detention; be accredited by the joint commission; be the nearest available facility to the county seat of the county in which the person is located; agrees to receive the person for initial assessment or detention; and if the facility has entered into the Interstate Compact on Mental Health.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S), John Carey (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/26/2009Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB0598Paraphrase:declares information, records, materials and reports related to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services' investigations of allegation of consumer abuse, neglect or mistreatment to be confidential and to contain privileged information and shall not be open to public inspection or their contents disclosed or subject to subpoena. It also clarifies the duties of the department's advocate general. It eliminates the requirement that internal audit reports be made directly to the governor and requires that the reports be made available to the governor. The measure limits site visit fees to no more than $300. It requires the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse services to promulgate rules for certification of peer recovery support specialists who are employed by the state or by behavioral services providers contracting with the state to provide behavioral health services. It also authorizes the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is to promulgate rules that establish the setting and collection of fines for failure to meet the required rules for the certification.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S), Scott Martin (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/20/2009Current Status:CCR Read - House
SB0612Paraphrase:requires defendants planning to raise the question of mental illness or insanity to file notice with the court within 30 days after arraignment. It also directs the court to provide for services from a qualified mental health professional if the defendant is financially unable to obtain services.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S), Rex Duncan (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/21/2009Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB0647Paraphrase:transfers the Criminal Justice Resource Center from the Legislative Service Bureau to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Attorney General effective July 1, 2009. It transfers functions related to administration and research to a newly created Office of Criminal Justice Statistics within the Information Services Division of OSBI, the functions related to data processing and information technology to the Information Technology Systems Division of OSBI and the functions related to the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board to the Office of the Attorney General. The bill also updates previous references to the Criminal Justice Resource Center. It also reduces from 18 to 17 the membership of the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. The measure also repeals language recreating the Oklahoma Council on Violence Prevention.
 Principal Authors:Glenn Coffee (S), Gus Blackwell (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:03/11/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0697Paraphrase:creates the Children's Cabinet to develop, recommend and implement coordinated state policies to improve the health and welfare of children and families. The bill establishes the cabinet's membership and responsibilities, including developing a strategic plan that shall provide a long-term children's policy for the state no later than July 1, 2010. In the House, all language was replaced with language modifying membership of the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, increases the number of members from 19 to 27 members.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S), Joe Dorman (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0707Paraphrase:classifies the crime of domestic abuse as a felony
 Principal Authors:Debbe Leftwich (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0723Paraphrase:expands the back-to-school sales tax holiday to include the sale of school supplies, school art supplies or school instructional supplies.
 Principal Authors:Don Barrington (S), Earl Sears (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:05/26/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:SB0723 (2010) (C)
SB0729Paraphrase:directs the administrative director of the courts to promulgate uniform statewide rules to be implemented by drug court programs.
 Principal Authors:Richard C. Lerblance (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0731Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Department of Aging as an agency within the executive branch to evaluate and provide public solutions to the social, economic and health issues related to aging in Oklahoma. The bill also creates the Oklahoma Commission on Aging to be the governing board of the department. It directs the transfer to the Department of Aging the powers and duties of the Aging Services Division of the Department of Human Services, the Aging and Long-Term Care Program of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Senior Health Insurance Counseling Program of the Insurance Department, the Senior Center Renovation Program of the Department of Commerce, the Transportation Program for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities of DHS, the Community Service Program of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and all other programs required under the federal Older Americans Act.
 Principal Authors:Constance Johnson (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0732Paraphrase: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:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0773Paraphrase:increases from 10 to 15 days the time by which notice must be given to relevant parties of a hearing related to grandparent visitation rights.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0786Paraphrase:directs the Department of Corrections to ensure that its education program allows inmates the opportunity to achieve a General Educational Development level of proficiency in reading, writing and computation skills. It also directs that priority for placement in educational programs be given inmates lacking basic literacy skills.
 Principal Authors:Judy Eason McIntyre (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0823Paraphrase:modifies language related to the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training. The bill declares the council a law enforcement agency that is necessary to ensure professional training and continuing education for law enforcement officers.
 Principal Authors:Anthony Sykes (S), Todd Thomsen (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0829Paraphrase:excludes individuals employed by nonprofit corporations from reimbursement by the state for expenses incurred during authorized official state travel. The bill also clarifies language related to the executive director of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology.
 Principal Authors:Kenneth Corn (S), Neil Brannon (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0839Paraphrase: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:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0845Paraphrase:clarifies language related to the Oklahoma Drug Court Act. The bill places the Administrative Office of the Courts over the establishment and operation of drug courts. The bill requires the administrator of the courts to establish job qualifications, set salaries and employ necessary staff and a State Drug Court Director to administer drug court programs. The bill creates the duties and responsibilities of the State Drug Court Director. The bill requires the Legislature to appropriate funds for the operation of drug courts and the administrative office. The bill requires the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to transfer all necessary drug court records to the administrator of the courts.
 Principal Authors:Anthony Sykes (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0850Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption for nonprofit organizations made up of women in agriculture that are part of a national women's association dedicated to stimulating the economy and providing scientific agriculture education and oversee business ventures and to subcontractors acting on behalf of the organizations.
 Principal Authors:Constance Johnson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0891Paraphrase:expands the list of industries qualifying for the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act to include animal, except poultry, slaughtering.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S), John Carey (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0895Paraphrase:increases to 15 days from 10 days the period of time for notice of certain hearings to determine the best interest of a child.
 Principal Authors:Susan Paddack (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0911Paraphrase: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:01/01/2011Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0918Paraphrase:removes language related to the provision of a TRICARE supplement product by the Oklahoma State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board.
 Principal Authors:John Sparks (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0956Paraphrase:modifies language related to human trafficking, defining terminology and what constitutes "human trafficking." It increases from 14 to 18, the age of victims that would constitute stiffer penalties for conviction of human trafficking. The bill states that victims may seek civil damages with or without criminal conviction. It also establishes a statute of limitations for civil action, stipulating that the cause of action shall not commence until the latter of the victim's emancipation from the defendant or the victim's twenty-first birthday. The bill also makes it illegal to knowingly engage in human trafficking and increases victims' age from under 14 to under 18 years of age at which the offense will be deemed a felony. It allows victims to bring a civil action against the person or persons responsible for human trafficking and to recover actual and punitive damages and reasonable attorneys fees. It also states that a criminal prosecution is not necessary for filing a civil action and establishes that the statute of limitations for the cause of action will not commence until the latter of the victim's emancipation form the defendant or the victim's 21st birthday. The bill allows law enforcement officers to seize any vehicle or other property used to facilitate or participate in human trafficking or when used by a prostitute, pimp or panderer to facilitate or participate in prostitution. The bill exempts vehicles or property used by a customer or anyone procuring the services or a prostitute from seizure.
 Principal Authors:Todd Lamb (S), Pam Peterson (H)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:06/07/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB0966Paraphrase:modifies the definition of "basic industry" under the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act to include explosives manufacturing businesses; and search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing businesses; guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing businesses; guided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing businesses; military armored vehicle, tank and tank component manufacturing businesses; air transportation commercial air carrier businesses; and electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance businesses.
 Principal Authors:Thomas Ivester (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB0968Paraphrase:directs the governor to appoint the director or primary executive position for all agencies that provide a position of director that are not currently appointed by the governor or holds the office by statewide election, with such appointments being subject to Senate approval.
 Principal Authors:Randy Brogdon (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1014Paraphrase:creates the Brandon Burgett Act. It directs the balance of proceeds of sale from any vehicle forfeited, after all expenses and distributions are made, to be deposited in the Drug Abuse Education and Treatment Revolving Funds for use in the treatment and drug testing of indigent substance abusing offenders participating in the Oklahoma Drug Court Act or for substance abuse prevention. It allows persons convicted of two or more offenses of driving under the influence within 10 years to be punished by forfeiture of all vehicles.
 Principal Authors:Harry Coates (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1015Paraphrase:establishes a $6,000 flexible benefit for health insurance purposes only plus $3,000 each for a spouse or child to be made available on a debit card beginning for the plan year ending Dec. 31, 2010, and each plan year thereafter. It directs the Employees Benefits Council to determine annually the amount of the remainder of the flexible benefit allowance for each participant to cover the dental plan, disability plan and basic life insurance plan. It allows a state employee health insurance debit card to be used to pay directly for costs of health care or prescription drugs. If the participant's health costs exceed the amount on the card, the bill directs that the participant be automatically enrolled in a plan offered by the State and Education Employees Insurance Board. It states legislative intent to appropriate money necessary to fund the premiums.
 Principal Authors:Jim Wilson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1026Paraphrase:modifies language related to training schools within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
 Principal Authors:Earl Garrison (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1053Paraphrase:modifies language related to mental health services.
 Principal Authors:Clark Jolley (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1065Paraphrase: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:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1075Paraphrase:modifies requirements for review of an offender's eligibility for drug court, reducing to 10 years the span during which the person shall have had no felony conviction for a violent offense. The bill also states that offenders who have not fully paid all costs and fees pursuant to court order but who have otherwise successfully completed the drug court program shall not be counted as an active drug court participant for purposes of drug court contracts or program participant numbers.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S), Daniel Sullivan (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/22/2009Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB1087Paraphrase:creates a 9 member Emergency Medical Services Board and transfers to it all powers and duties of the Emergency Services Division of the State Department of Health, along with funding allocations and staff from the State Department of Health to the Emergency Medical Services Board. It establishes requirements for membership, conduct of meetings and timing and content of reports. It authorizes the board to promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of the Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Development Act.
 Principal Authors:Bryce Marlatt (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1098Paraphrase:directs the State Department of Education to develop a model dating violence policy by Dec. 31 2009. It also directs district board of education to establish a specific policy to address incidents of dating violence involving students at school by July 31, 2010. It stipulates that each district policy shall include a statement that dating violence will not be tolerated, reporting procedures for dating violence, guidelines to responding to at school incidents of dating violence and discipline procedures specific to such incidents. It also stipulates that the policy shall be posted in the district policy handbook. It requires each district to provide dating violence training to all administrators, teachers, nurses, and mental health staff at the middle and high school levels. The bill directs each school district to incorporate dating violence education that is age-appropriate into the annual health curriculum framework for students in grades 7 through 12.
 Principal Authors:Constance Johnson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1192Paraphrase:establishes a Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training Regional Academy Pilot Program to provide localized, community law enforcement agencies the ability to send law enforcement officers to basic police course training closer to their geographical location, even if those officers are located outside of the jurisdiction of the host regional academy. The bill establishes criteria, policies and procedures for participation in the pilot program.
 Principal Authors:Don Barrington (S), Don Armes (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2009Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:03/11/2010Current Status:Bill Failed - Senate
SB1201Paraphrase:grants a rebuttable presumption of custody to a grandparent or grandparents when any custodial parent who is not part of an intact nuclear family grants apparent indefinite custody of a minor child to the grandparent or grandparents with the intent of relinquishing responsibility for said minor child. It states that if such a parent seeks to regain custody, the court, in determining the best interest of the child, shall consider the fact that the parent granted to a grandparent or grandparents apparent indefinite custody of the minor child when making any grant of custody or visitation, with special emphasis on the relationship between the grandparent or grandparents and the minor child.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S), John Carey (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1204Paraphrase:adds boiler inspectors licensed by the Department of Labor providing services pursuant to a contract with the state or a political subdivision to the definition of "employee" under the Governmental Tort Claims Act.
 Principal Authors:Bryce Marlatt (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2009Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1270Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Department of Aging as an agency within the executive branch to evaluate and provide public solutions to the social, economic and health issues related to aging in Oklahoma. The bill also creates the Oklahoma Commission on Aging to be the governing board of the department. It directs the transfer to the Department of Aging the powers and duties of the Aging Services Division of the Department of Human Services, the Aging and Long-Term Care Program of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Senior Health Insurance Counseling Program of the Insurance Department, the Senior Center Renovation Program of the Department of Commerce, the Transportation Program for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities of DHS, the Senior Community Service Program of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and all other programs required under the federal Older Americans Act.
 Principal Authors:Mary Easley (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1276Paraphrase:creates the Children's Cabinet to develop, recommend and implement coordinated state policies to improve the health and welfare of children and families. The bill establishes the cabinet's membership and responsibilities, including developing a strategic plan to provide a long-term children's policy for the state no later than July 1, 2011.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1290Paraphrase:exempts out-of-state insurers and health maintenance organizations from a requirement for certificates of authority if they are duly authorized or qualified in the state or territory of its domicile and the insurance commissioner certifies they meet certain requirements. The bill states that the out-of-state insurer and health maintenance organizations cannot transact individual or group health insurance by mail, the Internet or otherwise unless the insurance commissioner has issued a certification. The measure allows the Oklahoma State Employees' Benefits Council to contract with out-of-state health maintenance organizations that are certified by the insurance commissioner.
 Principal Authors:Jim Wilson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1299Paraphrase:allows a county health department, district health department, cooperate health department or city-county health department to provide primary care services.
 Principal Authors:Jim Wilson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1315Paraphrase:requires rather than authorizes the Department of Human Services to replace or make reimbursement for eyeglasses or contact lenses, hearing aids, prosthetic devices, durable medical equipment or mobility enhancing equipment of employees at the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid, Southern Oklahoma Resource Center of Pauls Valley, Hissom Memorial Center or any other juvenile institution if such items are damaged by a resident while the employee is engaged in the performance of his/her duties.
 Principal Authors:Susan Paddack (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1376Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption on tangible property or services sold to a licensed hospital that provides medical care to children with severe illnesses, injuries or diseases or who are severely disabled; is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; and that derives at least 75 percent of its gross patient care revenue from federal and state health benefit program reimbursement.
 Principal Authors:Sean Burrage (S), Mike Thompson (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1388Paraphrase:requires a law enforcement agency's Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training certification to be suspended if the agency does not reimburse for the training of any person hired after resigning from an original law enforcement agency that paid the employee's salary while he or she completed a basic police course in Oklahoma if that person resigned from the original agency within one year after certification.
 Principal Authors:Mary Easley (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1487Paraphrase:makes an appropriation to and sets budget limitations for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for fiscal year 2011.
 Principal Authors:Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H)
 Effective Date:09/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/28/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:GCCA (J)
SB1488Paraphrase:authorizes the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority to issue obligations of $6 million to provide financing for the acquisition of property and to construct buildings for a facility to provide inpatient and outpatient services for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. The funds are to be used to replace a facility in Tulsa. The bill makes the issue contingent on the authority finding that the department has received at least $6 million in private donations designated for the construction of the facility.
 Principal Authors:Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H)
 Effective Date:09/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:06/10/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB1561Paraphrase:makes $6.67 billion in general appropriations to executive, legislative and judicial agencies for fiscal year 2011.
 Principal Authors:Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/10/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB1562Paraphrase:makes general appropriations to executive, legislative and judicial agencies for fiscal year 2011.
 Principal Authors:Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H)
 Effective Date:09/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/28/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:GCCA (J)
SB1563Paraphrase:makes general appropriations to executive, legislative and judicial agencies for fiscal year 2011.
 Principal Authors:Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H)
 Effective Date:09/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/28/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:GCCA (J)
SB1579Paraphrase:adds employees of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirements System, the Teachers Retirement System and the State Election Board to the unclassified service. The bill also adds employees in certain positions in the Office of State Finance and the Department of Central Services to the unclassified service. It repeals language that declares all employees of the Teachers Retirement System to be classified employees. The measure also requires that the involuntary furloughs of employees by the Senate president pro tempore, the House speaker or authorized by the Oklahoma Supreme Court shall not count as a break in continuous employment for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits.
 Principal Authors:Mike Johnson (S), David Myers (S), Scott Martin (H), Kenneth Miller (H)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:06/08/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB1597Paraphrase:states legislative intent that members of state boards and commissions serve for a limited period of time. It allows members of state boards and commissions serving on Nov. 1, 2010, to continue to serve until the expiration of their current terms. The bill states that upon expiration of those terms, if a member has served for 12 or more consecutive years, the member is not eligible for re-appointment. If a member has not served for 12 or more years, he/she is eligible for re-appointment for a full term if it does not result in the member serving for 12 or more years, or he/she may be re-appointed for a partial term. The measure states that once a board or commission member is ineligible for re-appointment, the successor's term of office cannot be longer than six years, and no one can be appointed for 12 or more years. It modifies the terms of members of various boards and commissions, establishing terms of office at six years.
 Principal Authors:Gary Michael Stanislawski (S), John A. Wright (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1600Paraphrase:exempts from the requirements of the Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act purchases and solicitations made from funds or assets received by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. It requires such monies received by such activities or donations to be maintained in an agency special account with control residing in a trust created by the department. In the House, language was added to allow the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to enter into a contract at any time with a physician, registered nurse or licensed mental health professional who has separated or retired from state service. The second CCR increases the value of a function, program, service, unit or division from $100,000 or more to $1 million before an agency must perform a cost analysis and provide a copy of the analysis to the Department of Central Services before an agency contracts to privatize that function, program, service, unit or division The CCR requires DCS to provide notification to affected employees that they will have the opportunity to submit cost savings recommendations for improving operations, efficiency or organization of the entity being considered for privatization. The CCR requires that the recommendations be considered by the agency, separate and apart from the bid process, and requires the agency to make the final determination whether to accept the winning nonemployee bid or to accept the employee recommendations in lieu of the winning bid. The CCR also allows the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to enter into a contract at any time with a physician, registered nurse or licensed mental health professional that has separated or retired from state service.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S), Colby Schwartz (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:05/28/2010Current Status:Bill Failed - House
SB1601Paraphrase:modifies language related to the Protective Services for Vulnerable Adults Act, stating that records of investigations conducted under the act cannot be expunged except by court order. The bill also directs the Department of Human Services and the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, contingent upon funding, to develop and implement an 11-member Vulnerable Adult Intervention Task Force to study and examine how to best provide interdisciplinary community assistance, intervention and referral services for persons with mental or physical illnesses or disabilities, dementia or other related diseases or conditions. It directs the task force to submit a report to the Legislature by Dec. 31, 2010, and annually thereafter. The bill states that if the department is currently or was previously appointed as temporary guardian of the alleged victim of abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or financial neglect, any petition or motion requesting expungement of the investigative records of the department shall be filed under the same case number. It requires that written notice of the hearing and a copy of any such petition or motion shall be properly and timely served upon: the alleged victim of abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or financial neglect; the department's office of general counsel and any other counsel of record in a proceeding in which the department was appointed as temporary guardian, an all other persons due notice in a guardianship proceeding.
 Principal Authors:Sean Burrage (S), Ron Peters (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:06/11/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB1612Paraphrase:creates a 19-member Advisory Council for Children of Incarcerated Parents to develop, recommend, implement and advise the Legislature and policymakers on measures to promote the safety and well-being of children whose parents are incarcerated. It requires the council to submit a state plan to identify and coordinate services to children of incarcerated parents to the governor, Senate president pro tempore and House speaker by Feb. 1, 2011. In the House, the bill was amended to add a member to the council and extend its report submission date to Feb. 1, 2012. In the House, the bill was amended to change the council to a task force and provide mileage reimbursement for members.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S), Jeannie McDaniel (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:05/04/2010Current Status:Conferees Named - Senate
 Committee:SB1612 (C)
SB1616Paraphrase:creates the Health Carrier Access Payment Revolving Fund to fund the principal state program aimed to provide access to health insurance to uninsured Oklahomans and maximize the ability of the state to secure all possible federal funds, grants and matching funds. It requires the insurance commissioner to post monthly on the Insurance Department's Web site a report detailing expenditures from the fund. It requires all health carriers to pay to the insurance commissioner an access payment of one-half of 1 percent on all claims paid, increasing one-half of 1 percent if the commissioner certifies that enrollment in the principal state program aimed to provide insurance access to the uninsured reaches 75 percent of the total possible enrollment. It places a cap of 4 percent on the health carrier access payment. Such payments are to be deposited into the Health Carrier Access Payment Revolving Fund. It allows the commissioner to refuse to renew, suspend or revoke the certificate of authority of a health carrier for failing to pay an access payment.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S), Doug Cox (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Bill Failed - House
SB1624Paraphrase:caps at $50 the amount a doctor, hospital or other medical institution may charge a patient for copies of all records if the patient is applying for Social Security disability insurance benefits or supplemental security income benefits or is appealing a denial of such benefits. It does not prohibit the Department of Rehabilitation Services from limiting medical record copy charges below $50 for services performed by the department.
 Principal Authors:Susan Paddack (S), Todd Thomsen (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1641Paraphrase:adds one hour of training on Alzheimer's and related forms of dementia to the continuing education requirements for law enforcement officers certified through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training.
 Principal Authors:Thomas Ivester (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1653Paraphrase:provides a sales tax credit for members of national nonprofit organizations supported entirely by membership dues and whose members consist of those who served or now serve on a ship or stations related to naval mine warfare.
 Principal Authors:Jonathan Nichols (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1658Paraphrase:states legislative intent to make the Insurance Department a non-appropriated agency beginning July 1, 2010. The bill authorizes the insurance commissioner to establish, set, amend, revoke and collect any fee falling within the authority of the commissioner or the Department of Insurance through the promulgation of necessary rules, however no fee established, set, amended, revoked or collected by the commissioner will take effect prior to July 1, 2011. In the House, the bill was replaced with language that creates the State Insurance Commissioner Revolving Fund, which is to be used to fund the operations of the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. It also establishes the amount of fees that may be charged by the office unless the commissioner has established a fee by the promulgation of a rule. The measure also clarifies language and statutory references related to the office and the commissioner.
 Principal Authors:David Myers (S), Daniel Sullivan (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1724Paraphrase:increases to $75 the maximum fee that may be charged for a defendant to attend a victims impact panel program.
 Principal Authors:Mary Easley (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1725Paraphrase:directs school districts that use corporal punishment to ensure that when such measures are administered on a female student enrolled in grade three or higher that the punishment be administered by a certified employee of the district who is the same gender and that another certified employee observe.
 Principal Authors:Earl Garrison (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1772Paraphrase:directs information, records and reports related to investigations by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services into allegations of consumer abuse, neglect or mistreatment to be confidential and privileged, not open to public inspection or subject to subpoena. It allows a court to order inspection or disclosure of such records only after a review of the records and a determination that compelling reason exists for privilege to be waived and the inspection or disclosure of the records is necessary to protect a legitimate public or private interest. The measure allows the department to summarize allegations made, facts and evidence gathered and findings and to provide that summary to certain individuals or entities. It removes language related to the department's advocate general. It prohibits the department from charging in excess of $300 for site visit fees for inspections and certifications. The bill directs the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to promulgate rules for certification of peer recovery support specialists employed by the state or behavioral service providers contracting with the state. It allows the board to promulgate rules establishing fines for failure to meet required rules for such certification. In the House, the bill was amended to modify terms for members of the board, limiting terms to seven years unless reappointed. It authorizes the department to declare and dispose of surplus equipment. It removes language related to receipt and use of federal funds. It removes language restricting original leases to 10 years. It requires community mental health facilities to comply with rules promulgated by the department.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S), Scott Martin (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/27/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB1778Paraphrase:clarifies language related to disclosure of mental health or drug or alcohol abuse treatment information.
 Principal Authors:Clark Jolley (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1789Paraphrase:directs a judge to order a child witness to testify by an alternative method upon a motion from a party. It modifies penalties for first-degree rape when the victim is a child under age 12, which is to be punishable by imprisonment with the Department of Corrections for at least 25 years, life or life without parole. It also modifies the authority of a court to suspend sentences when a person is convicted of sexual abuse or enabling child sex abuse when the victim is under age 14, allowing the court to only suspend up to 50 percent of the sentence. The bill also modifies language related to requests made by the Department of Corrections director to the Pardon and Parole Board to place an inmate on the docket for a medical reason. It states that such language cannot apply to inmates serving a sentence for first- or second-degree rape, rape by instrumentation, lewd, indecent proposals or acts with a child or sexual abuse or enabling child sex abuse.
 Principal Authors:Randy Brogdon (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1795Paraphrase:requires rather than allows the district courts to establish drug court programs. It directs the administrative director of the courts to promulgate uniform statewide rules to be implemented by drug court programs by Jan. 1, 2011.
 Principal Authors:Richard C. Lerblance (S)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1796Paraphrase:directs an order by the Department of Public Safety suspending or revoking the driving privileges of an offender to run during the same time period as a stay entered by a drug court judge.
 Principal Authors:Richard C. Lerblance (S), Brian Renegar (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1800Paraphrase:defines "person" to include a child alleged to be delinquent or a juvenile for purposes of determining competency.
 Principal Authors:Susan Paddack (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1818Paraphrase:creates the Oklahoma Certified Healthy Communities Act. The bill requires the State Department of Health to create a program for the voluntary certification of communities that promote health and wellness. The bill also creates the Oklahoma Healthy Communities Advisory Committee, establishes the committee's membership and duties to work with the health department in the development of criteria for the certification of communities. The bill also establishes criteria for the evaluation of communities.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S), Kris Steele (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/20/2010Current Status:Conference Committee - Do Pass
 Committee:GCCA (S)
SB1819Paraphrase:creates the Direct Care Worker Advisory Council to make recommendations on maximizing profitability, minimizing redundancy, introducing uniformity and certification, and it directs the council to report those recommendations to the governor, speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate by Nov. 30, 2011. The bill establishes membership guidelines and provides for travel reimbursements. In the House, the bill was replaced with language allowing any 16-year-old with parental permission or any 17-year-old without parental permission to donate blood voluntarily.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S), Doug Cox (H)
 Effective Date:12/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/04/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB1828Paraphrase:clarifies language related to training schools within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1829Paraphrase:removes outdated language related to the terms of office for members of the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1836Paraphrase:modifies language relating to an electronic health record. The bill modifies the purpose of the Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board to add advising and assisting the Oklahoma Health Care Authority in developing a strategy that will assist hospitals and health care providers in receiving electronic health record incentive payments and developing a process to administer a loan program made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S), Doug Cox (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/04/2010Current Status:In Committee - Conference
 Committee:SB1836 - Senate to GCCA (C)
SB1837Paraphrase:modifies language relating to the cost of medical records, restricting the total cost of records produced in digital form at $50 and adding surviving next-of-kin to the list of people affected by the law.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1878Paraphrase:modifies language to define exclusions to psychotherapy notes. The bill also requires a written release for disclosure of mental health or drug or alcohol abuse treatment information to include a communicable disease notification and a confidentiality notice or warning. It also invalidates a release which contains material information known or suspected to be false. The bill also states that a revocation of a release that is for substance abuse information does not mandate a written revocation. It removes language requiring valid patient authorization or court order for disclosure regarding mental health and alcohol or substance abuse treatment and requires only a valid authorization or valid court order.
 Principal Authors:Harry Coates (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1959Paraphrase:changes the name of the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission Act to the Oklahoma Aviation Commission Act. The bill also changes the name of the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute to the Stafford Center. The bill removes the position of commission director from the list of positions that must be unclassified and may not be placed under the classified service and places all employees of the Oklahoma Aviation Commission in the unclassified service. The bill removes a reference to the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute and defines the role of the Stafford Center.
 Principal Authors:Harry Coates (S)
 Effective Date:01/01/2011Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB1976Paraphrase:establishes procedures for a drug court team to determine whether an offender is appropriate for the drug court program.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2007Paraphrase:removes time-specific language related to the Department of Public Safety canceling or denying driving privileges for those under the age of 18. The bill also requires that if the person is less than 16 years of age at the time of the determination and will be less than 16 years of age at the end of the cancellation or denial period, the department will extend the period to the date the individual turns 16. The bill also limits certain denial modifications to Class D motor vehicles only and prohibits certain other modifications. It directs that anyone issued an intermediate Class D license for one year and has not been convicted of a traffic offense for that one-year period or anyone issued a six-month intermediate license, having completed other prerequisites, and has not been convicted of a traffic offense for that six-month period may be issued a Class D license.
 Principal Authors:Don Barrington (S), Jason Nelson (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/07/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2016Paraphrase:clarifies language related to training schools within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
 Principal Authors:Clark Jolley (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2017Paraphrase:requires any person whose Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training certification has been revoked, suspended or voluntarily surrendered for any reason, including failure to comply with mandatory education and training requirements, to pay a $150 reinstatement fee.
 Principal Authors:Anthony Sykes (S), Randy Terrill (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2021Paraphrase:creates the Brandon Burgett Act related to persons under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicating substances. The bill eliminates the time restriction on second offenses. The bill also requires any person operating a motor vehicle who dies as a result of a fatality accident to have their blood tested for alcohol concentration. The bill requires a law enforcement officer who arrests a person for operating a motor vehicle while their driver's license is suspended or revoked and when the vehicle is owned in whole or part by the person to impound the vehicles license plate for not less than 90 days. The bill permits a court to direct the Tax Commission to issue a temporary license plate for the vehicle which will indicate that the original plate has been impounded. The bill also requires individuals who withdraw blood from any person involved in a motor vehicle accident to notify the nearest peace or law enforcement officer of certain results. The bill requires the Department of Public Safety to impound motor vehicles under certain circumstances and for specific lengths of time.
 Principal Authors:Harry Coates (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2023Paraphrase:establishes that if a person is convicted of two or more crimes in the same proceeding or court or in different proceedings or courts, and the judgment and sentence for each conviction arrives at a state penal institution on different dates, the sentences shall be served concurrently. The new language also states that if a defendant is sentenced in a state court who is also under sentence from a federal court or another state's court, the sentences shall run concurrently with the federal or another state's sentence imposed, unless the court orders a judgment and sentence to run consecutively with the other jurisdiction.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S), John Enns (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:03/08/2010Current Status:Bill Failed - Senate
SB2054Paraphrase: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:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/06/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2071Paraphrase:clarifies language related to training schools within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
 Principal Authors:Judy Eason McIntyre (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2113Paraphrase:amends, merges, consolidates and repeals duplicate sections of law.
 Principal Authors:Patrick Anderson (S), Rex Duncan (H)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:03/03/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2116Paraphrase:provides a sales tax exemption on the sale of tangible personal property or services to or by Oklahoma Chapters of an organization chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veteran's organization and which is tax-exempt and organized into departments operating in each of the 50 states and other locations and with at least 14,000 posts worldwide.
 Principal Authors:Kenneth Corn (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2124Paraphrase:defines specific support activities for rail transportation and specific support activities for water transportation as "basic industry" in relation to tax and incentive purposes. In the House, language was added to include alternative energy structure construction, solar reflective coating application and solar heating equipment installation to the definition of "basic industry" under certain conditions.
 Principal Authors:Mike Mazzei (S), Jeff Hickman (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/07/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2126Paraphrase:includes "technology center school district" in the definition of "political subdivision" under the Governmental Tort Claims Act.
 Principal Authors:Debbe Leftwich (S), Randy Terrill (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/10/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2128Paraphrase:specifies within the Quality Jobs Act that a "qualified federal contract" shall not qualify unless both the qualified federal contractor and subcontractor verify to the qualified federal contractor verifier that they offer or will offer within 180 days of employment of their respective employees, a basic health benefits plan. The bill also increases the average wage requirement maximum from $25,000 to $29,409, and it states that within three years of the first complete calendar quarter that the federal contractor must have actual annual verified gross qualified labor hours of a minimum of $2.5 million to continue receiving incentive payment. It also provides for other reasons that the incentive payments shall not be made, including average annualized wage requirements. The bill also directs the Department of Commerce to determine prior to application approval that neither the federal contractor nor subcontractor have previously received incentive payments under several state incentive programs. The measure requires that a qualified federal contract involve services that are capable of being accomplished without a state of Oklahoma workforce and are performed by a state of Oklahoma workforce. It also requires a business to offer a basic health benefits plan to its employees within 180 days to qualify. It also requires that total qualified labor hours only apply to hours of work performed by a state of Oklahoma workforce. The bill also allows subcontractors in order of tier ranking as determined by a federal contract verifier to assume the role of the prime contractor and apply to become a qualified federal contractor should a prime contractor provide notice of its intent to not apply for incentive for a qualified federal contract. It requires all costs for the federal contract verifier to be reimbursed through value-added services on the qualified federal contract. The bill also requires a qualified federal contractor to pay $31 per hour in any county for qualified subcontractor work. It allows the Department of Commerce to establish a renewable 10-year contract with a qualified federal contractor using a net cost/benefit analysis model. It allows a qualified federal contractor or subcontractor receiving inventive payments under various state acts to defer in part or in entirety other incentives.
 Principal Authors:David Myers (S), Mike Jackson (H)
 Effective Date:07/01/2010Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:05/14/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2133Paraphrase: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:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2144Paraphrase:modifies language related to multidisciplinary child abuse teams.
 Principal Authors:Jonathan Nichols (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2148Paraphrase:adds licensed medical professionals who charge an amount for medical services that does not exceed Medicare reimbursement rates for any patient to the list of health professionals covered under the Governmental Tort Claims Act.
 Principal Authors:Jim Wilson (S), Mike Brown (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2149Paraphrase:allows identifying information to be included without redaction in the medical and social history of a minor when the prospective adoptive parent is a kinship or relative caregiver or if the minor has lived in the prospective adoptive parent's home for two or more years. The bill also requires the Department of Human Services to assure that a child of compulsory school age whose adoptive parent is receiving adoption assistance benefits is enrolled in an appropriate institution under state law. The bill also allows adoption assistance payments on behalf of a child subject to the jurisdiction of Oklahoma but residing in another state to be made up to the maximum foster care reimbursement allowable in the state of residence. The bill also allows an individual to receive independent living services from the age of 16 until the age of 18, during the time the individual is in the custody of the Department of Human Services. It also allows independent living services to continue until age 21 under certain provisions.
 Principal Authors:John Sparks (S)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2150Paraphrase:makes assault and battery against a former spouse of one's current spouse to be punishable by not more than one year in prison and/or a $5,000 fine. In the House, language was modified to include a person who is or was in a dating relationship with the defendant.
 Principal Authors:John Sparks (S), Ron Peters (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/07/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2151Paraphrase:allows drug court judges to enter a written order requiring the Department of Public Safety to restore the Class D driving privileges of any offender who has successfully completed the drug court program in good standing, provided, the order shall not be construed to grant driving privileges to an offender who has not been issued a driver license by the department or whose Oklahoma license has expired, in which case the offender shall be required to apply for and be found eligible for a license by meeting all requirements.
 Principal Authors:Jay Paul Gumm (S), John Carey (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2153Paraphrase:requires mental health court programs to establish a separate judicial processing system differing in practice and design from the traditional adversarial criminal prosecution and trial systems. The bill establishes requirements for mental health courts and requires the programs to keep reliable data on recidivism, relapses, restarts, sanctions imposed and incentives given. The bill also establishes requirements for eligibility and exclusionary criteria for each mental health court program. It also defines and outlines Mental Health Court Teams. The bill requires drug testing and monitoring to be used as tools to support recovery and not solely as a means to support sanctions and provides criteria for drug testing and monitoring. The bill requires incentives to be awarded to mental health court participants for exhibiting desired behaviors and for sanctions to be implemented to discourage certain behavior. The bill states that the program is contingent upon the availability of funds.
 Principal Authors:Debbe Leftwich (S), Corey Holland (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2219Paraphrase:authorizes the Department of Corrections to implement a pilot program to provide a more comprehensive curriculum of reentry programs, diversion efforts and services inmates with children in order to help facilitate successful long-term reintegration.
 Principal Authors:Todd Lamb (S), Rebecca Hamilton (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/08/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2235Paraphrase:requires a motion for an emergency custody hearing to include an independent report that demonstrates the child is in surroundings that could endanger the child in a court proceeding concerning child custody or child visitation. If there is no report, it requires an individual with personal knowledge that the child is in a surrounding that could endanger the child to provide a notarized affidavit. It also requires the court to conduct a hearing within 72 hours from when the motion and supporting documentation is received. It states a court shall not be required to conduct a subsequent hearing if the court finds any information included in a notarized affidavit is false. The bill also imposes certain limits judicial districts may place on the qualifications of parenting coordinators.
 Principal Authors:Brian Crain (S), Daniel Sullivan (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/07/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2239Paraphrase:requires that the concealed handgun license issued by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to be issued in the applicant's county of residence. It also requires the sheriff to submit to OSBI legible fingerprints meeting OSBI's Automated Fingerprint Identification submission standards. It requires OSBI to either issue a concealed handgun license or deny an application within 60 days of the date of the receipt of the completed application if the background check reveals no records pertaining to the applicant. It requires the sheriff to issue or deny a concealed handgun license within 90 days in all other cases.
 Principal Authors:Steve Russell (S), John Enns (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:04/21/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2258Paraphrase:creates the Greater Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking Act of 2010. The bill makes it unlawful for any person to intentionally destroy, hide, alter, abscond or keep documentation, including birth certificates, visas, passports, green cards or other documents utilized in the regular course to either verify or legally extend an individual's legal status within the United States for the purpose of trafficking a person. The bill authorizes the attorney general, subject to the availability of funds, to establish an emergency hotline number for victims of human trafficking to call in order to request assistance or rescue. The bill also authorizes the attorney general to enter into agreements with county health departments to require posting of the rights contained in the law and the hotline number for publication in locations as directed by the State Department of Health. The bill also modifies the definition of blackmail to including threatening to report a person as being illegally present in the United States.
 Principal Authors:Clark Jolley (S), Randy Terrill (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:06/08/2010Current Status:Governor Action - Signed
SB2291Paraphrase:requires a record of conviction for any of the offenses related to driving, operating or being in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any other intoxicating substance in a municipal court be forwarded to the Department of Public Safety. In the House, language was restored to require the municipal court be a court of record.
 Principal Authors:Susan Paddack (S), Lisa J. Billy (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/13/2010Current Status:CCR Read - Senate
SB2303Paraphrase:requires any entity constitutionally or statutorily permitted to create a law enforcement agency to submit to the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training a minimum of 60 days prior to creation of the law enforcement agency or police department certain information regarding reason, funding, resources and policies. The bill also prescribes duties for CLEET to authorize or deny such a request.
 Principal Authors:Anthony Sykes (S), Randy Terrill (H)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:05/27/2010Current Status:CCR Read - House
SB2311Paraphrase:modifies and clarifies provisions related to the Commissioners of the Land Office. It clarifies the purpose the CLO to manage school lands and public lands as a sacred trust for the sole benefit of the beneficiaries of the trust. It authorizes the CLO to acquire by exchange, purchase, gift or grant all property necessary for the purpose of utilizing trust lands for the development of commercial and agricultural leases to maximize trust income for present and future beneficiaries and to exchange any real property of the trust for other real property of equal or greater value to maximize income for present and future beneficiaries. It establishes qualifications and duties for the secretary of the land office, including appointing authority for all CLO employees, except general counsel. It establishes a term of office of four years and allows the secretary to serve consecutive terms. It grants the secretary certain spending authority and modifies reporting and accounting requirements. It exempts the revolving fund from fiscal year limitations. The bill establishes a cash drawer change fund to provide change to customers. It exempts the office from provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act with respect to adoption and issuance of formal resolutions of the commissioners. The measure removes language related to investments in first mortgages on farm lands. It prohibits more than 60 percent of the trust fund from being invested in equity securities. It clarifies language related to requirements for appraisals, stating that all confidential communications and information obtained by an appraiser for the CLO shall not be considered public records and shall not be disclosed, except when a majority of the commissioners determine that disclosure is in the best interest of the trust. It modifies fines and enforcement measures related to false affidavits and property damage. It also clarifies that the CLO shall reserve all oil, gas and other mineral rights under any school lands. It authorizes the CLO to refuse to access a bid or lease contract where the applicant cannot prove credit worthiness. The bill also modifies procedures for handling checks and authorizes the secretary to purchase lock box collection services from an appropriate vendor for the handling, collection and processing of mail. It requires an annual audit by an independent Oklahoma certified public accountant in accordance with practices established by the Government Auditing Standards and modifies reporting requirements to include reports to the state auditor and inspector and the director of the Office of State Finance. It authorizes the CLO to employ attorneys or engage private attorneys to bring suit or defend suits in the name of the CLO. It clarifies language regarding the types of land controlled by the CLO and the rights of a lessee during sale of property. The bill exempts the CLO from local, county or other inferior zoning laws as they relate to surface and subsurface estates in land. It modifies language related to delinquent lease or rental payments, allowing for collection proceedings. It modifies language related to termination of leases. The measure eliminates a one-year, 160-acre restriction on single permits for mineral rights owned by the state. It removes language related to apportionment of ad valorem taxes by the CLO. The bill also places the certain positions in the unclassified service. The measure also repeals numerous sections of current statute regarding the CLO.
 Principal Authors:Glenn Coffee (S), Chris Benge (H)
 Effective Date: / / Emergency:Yes
 Status Date:04/22/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
SB2331Paraphrase:creates the Rights of People and Elderly with Disabilities Act.
 Principal Authors:Constance Johnson (S)
 Effective Date:11/01/2010Emergency:No
 Status Date:02/18/2010Current Status:Failed Deadline
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