| HB1090 | Paraphrase: | directs the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to study the use of pressure ulcer preventative methods in Medicaid-funded facilities. It directs the authority to submit a plan to the Legislature and the governor by Sept. 30, 2010, that provides for the funding of prevention and reduction methods for pressure ulcers, provides a funding source for prescription medication for prevention of pressure ulcers not covered by Medicare Part D and includes a study of the cost savings for using prevention methods in the Medicaid population. | ||
| Principal Authors: | John Trebilcock (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1335 | Paraphrase: | requires health benefit plans, including the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, offered or renewed after Jan. 1, 2010, to provide coverage for colorectal cancer exams and laboratory tests for cancer for nonsymptomatic individuals. It directs the third-party reimbursement rate for nonsymtomatic screening to be at the greater of the existing Medicare or Medicaid rate. It also requires such plans to provide coverage for ovarian cancer exams and laboratory tests for cancer, including nonsymptomatic individuals and establishes the third-party reimbursement rate at the greater of the existing Medicare or Medicaid rate. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Lee Denney (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1339 | Paraphrase: | requires all individual and group health insurance policies that provide coverage on an expense-incurred basis, all individual or group service or indemnity type contracts issued by a nonprofit corporation, including the Oklahoma State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board, to provide coverage for mammography or other breast cancer screening. It states that women under age 40 are entitled to coverage for mammography or other breast cancer screening once every five years or annually if the treating physician determines that the woman is at high risk for breast cancer. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Dennis Ray Bailey (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1394 | Paraphrase: | allows a certified registered nurse anesthetist to order, obtain and administer drugs in consultation with a licensed medical doctor, osteopathic physician, podiatric physician or dentist. It also modifies the definition of "certified registered nurse anesthetist," stating that they accept responsibility to practice in accordance with nursing standards and functions. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Jackson (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1481 | Paraphrase: | expands the scope of special volunteer licenses to include pharmacists, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. It also removes language related to a parent or guardian signing a statement when professional medical services are provided by a volunteer to a minor. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Sally Kern (H), Susan Paddack (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/22/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB1512 | Paraphrase: | exempts certain schools meeting certain standards from liability for not providing necessary services to a "child receiving special education." It removes related duties of the school in providing education services to children with special needs. It states that the school is to be the sole determiner of the methodology in which to provide services for the child, as long as the child is receiving some educational benefit. In the Senate, language was added that requires a school to use methodologies that provide the maximum possible educational benefit for special needs students. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Gus Blackwell (H), Mike Johnson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/22/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1530 | Paraphrase: | creates the Health Education Act and requires that school districts provide health education to students in either grade six, seven or eight. The measure allows the course to be taught in a separate semester health education course or integrated as part of other courses. It requires the teachers to be certified by the State Department of Education to teach health education, and the bill encourages school districts to work with community-based health organizations for the course. The measure also directs the health education instruction to be provided beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, but if a school does not employ a teacher certified to teach in health education that year, the school may delay implementation until the 2013-2014 school year. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Ann Coody (H), Clark Jolley (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 03/11/2010 | Current Status: | Bill Failed - House | |
| HB1567 | Paraphrase: | requires parents of students enrolled in second and eighth grades to provide schools with a completed physical evaluation. The bill provides an exemption if a parent writes a letter saying the requirement violates a religious or moral principle. The bill also directs the State Department of Health to construct questionnaires and guiding information for physicians about conditions such as asthma and diabetes. It also directs the Department of Health to create a statewide registry of qualified physicians and post it online. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Colby Schwartz (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1569 | Paraphrase: | requires that any person using the term "doctor" should designate the authority of his or her title and further defines nine main authorities under which a person can be registered as a doctor. The bill requires that any advertisement for health care services must identify the practitioner's type of license, and that each practitioner must display that information while practicing and also personally identify his or her license to any patient. The bill makes it unlawful for any medical doctor, doctor of osteopathic medicine, doctor of dental surgery, doctor of dental medicine, doctor of optometry, doctor of podiatry or doctor of chiropractic to make any deceptive or misleading statement, engage in any deceptive or misleading act or deceive or mislead the public or a prospective or current patient regarding the training and license under which the person is authorized to practice. The measure also prescribes fines that may be imposed by licensing state agencies or boards for violations. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Colby Schwartz (H), Brian Crain (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/11/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB1655 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1658 | Paraphrase: | exempts from liability for damages any physician or health care provider who provides medical services at a secondary school athletic event and renders or attempts to render emergency care to an injured participant in need of immediate aid, except for gross, willful or wanton negligence. The CCR adds language regarding the voluntary nature of the services provided by the health care provider or physician. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Joe Dorman (H), Don Barrington (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 01/01/2011 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB1678 | Paraphrase: | expands the scope of the Volunteer Medical Professional Services Immunity Act to include a list of licensed medical professions. It grants immunity from civil damages for persons participating in the Oklahoma Medical Reserve Corps and assisting emergency operations or management in disaster drills and community service events. The bill also grants immunity from civil actions to individuals, associations, for-profit or nonprofit organizations, private entities, religious organizations or charitable organizations that voluntarily provide goods and services in preparation for or during a time of emergency and in a place of emergency, as declared by the governor, to prevent, minimize or repair injury or damage resulting from biological, chemical or nuclear agents; terrorism; pandemic or epidemic infectious disease; catastrophic acts of nature; or any other emergency declared by the governor. It restricts immunity to acts rendered in good faith when the damage or injury that was not caused by will or wanton negligence or misconduct. It also adds language changing reference from the special volunteer medical license for physicians to the "special volunteer license for eligible volunteers from a medically related field." It directs that such licenses be issued to eligible physician assistants, dentists, optometrists and pharmacists by their respective boards. It also requires further documentation to be submitted with an application for a special volunteer license. It extends the Volunteer Medical Professional Services Immunity Act to volunteer professionals or volunteer health practitioners and any organization that arranges for the care given by the volunteer professionals. It provides a definition for "volunteer health practitioner" and "referred volunteer health practitioner." | ||
| Principal Authors: | Pat Ownbey (H), Susan Paddack (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/22/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB1728 | Paraphrase: | eliminates legal exemptions for smoking rooms in buildings and smoking in bars or taverns and repeals law relating to their permission. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1731 | Paraphrase: | requires physicians to test the blood of pregnant women for the human immunodeficiency virus. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1732 | Paraphrase: | adds definition of "surgical methods" to the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act and the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1744 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1896 | Paraphrase: | makes it unlawful for a person or retailer to sell or distribute tobacco products or samples for commercial purposes. It makes it unlawful for any person or retailer to distribute any coupon or other item redeemable by buyers to obtain tobacco products or samples for free or less than basic cost. The bill creates a misdemeanor for electronically scanning information on a driver license or identification card, compiling or maintaining a database of scanned information or purchasing, selling or trading scanned information to market, advertise or solicit the purchase or use of tobacco products. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1908 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1958 | Paraphrase: | creates the Civil Justice Reform Act of 2009. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Chris Benge (H), Patrick Anderson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 03/17/2009 | Current Status: | Dormant | |
| HB1968 | Paraphrase: | creates the Autism Services Improvement Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Chris Benge (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1969 | Paraphrase: | creates the Autism Services Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Chris Benge (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2026 | Paraphrase: | creates the Health Care for Oklahomans Act, directing the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, in collaboration with the Insurance Department, to establish the Health Care for the Uninsured Board (HUB) to review and establish a system of certification for insurance programs; establish a system for credentialing certified insurance programs; establish a system of counseling, including a Web site for individuals who are without health insurance and are not on Medicaid; and establish a system whereby if an individual qualifies for a subsidy under the premium assistance program, that person is able to become enrolled in the HUB. It directs the insurance commissioner in collaboration with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, to initiate a program to encourage enrollment of individuals not covered by insurance or Medicaid. It directs health care providers to refer uninsured individuals to HUB. The bill allows insurance carriers to provide standard health benefit plans to individuals under 40 years of age that do not include state-mandated health benefits provided a standard disclaimer is included at the beginning of a plan document. It requires insurance providers offering standard health plans to provide policyholders with a written disclosure statement listing state-mandated benefits not included in the policy and provide notice that purchase of a standard benefit plan may limit future health coverage options. It directs policyholders to sign a disclosure statement for initial coverage to be retained in the records of the insurer who must provide the signed statement to the Oklahoma Insurance Department upon request of the insurance commissioner. It requires health carriers offering one or more standard health benefit plans to offer at least one accident or health insurance policy with state-mandated benefits. It directs health carriers to file with the Oklahoma Insurance Department the rates used for the standard health benefit plan. It directs the insurance commissioner to adopt rules to implement these directives. It authorizes the Oklahoma Health Care Authority as part of the premium assistance program an option to purchase a high-deductible health insurance plan compatible with a health savings account. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Kris Steele (H), Brian Crain (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/06/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2027 | Paraphrase: | requires persons wishing to practice as a licensed behavior analyst or a licensed assistant behavior analyst to apply to the Developmental Disabilities Services Division within the Department of Human Services. It establishes criteria for licensure and license fees. It directs the Department of Health to use funds for specialized training for providers in the Sooner Start program to acquire skills necessary to treat children with autism spectrum disorders. The measure also directs the University Hospitals Authority to use funds for primary care provider evaluation training for providers in the Sooner SUCCESS program to acquire skills necessary to evaluate children with autism spectrum disorders. It directs the Developmental Disabilities Services Division to establish an applied behavioral analysis research pilot project and requires DHS to provide the Legislature and the governor a report by Jan. 1, 2014, about the project. The measure also directs the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to establish a program modeled after Early Foundations, an outreach program that provides early intensive behavioral intervention for children with autism. In the Senate, the bill was amended to encourage the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to provide funding for the autism training program at the University of Central Oklahoma. In the Senate, the bill was amended to require the state's Health Insurance High Risk Pool to cover the screening, diagnosis, testing and treatment of an autism spectrum disorder with no dollar limits, visit limitations, deductibles or co-insurance provisions that are less favorable to an insured individual than the dollar limits, visit limitations, deductibles or coinsurance provisions that apply to the primary plan. It was also amended to provide other definitions and coverage directives related to the plan. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Kris Steele (H), Ron Justice (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/15/2009 | Current Status: | Senate Amendments - Read | |
| HB2187 | Paraphrase: | prohibits a chief executive officer or other administrative head of a state agency that has the power to issue a license to a natural person from directly or indirectly soliciting support or opposition for legislation from any natural person who holds a licensed issued by that agency. It exempts from such language a person who serves on the governing board of the agency or a person who is appointed to serve on a task force or similar entity created by a legislative measure. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jason Nelson (H), Cliff Aldridge (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 03/31/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2258 | Paraphrase: | authorizes the State Department of Health to arrange for and charge meals and lodging for a contingent of state personnel moved into an area for the purpose of preserving the public health, safety, or welfare or for the protection of life or property. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Randy Terrill (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2318 | Paraphrase: | modifies the duties of the State Governmental Technology Applications Review Board to include serving as a facilitator organization between associations representing computer software developers and the chief information officer and to provide guidance for the CIO to develop common application programming interface standards for the publication and use of state data and to issue directives to the CIO and state agencies, boards, commissions and public trusts with the state as a beneficiary for the publication of raw data feeds of information that is subject to public access under the Oklahoma Open Records Act. It also increases from 15 percent to 20 percent the overall statewide information and technology and telecommunications net savings to be realized within two years of the appointment of a CIO. It also directs the CIO, under the direction of the State Governmental Technology Applications Review Board, to develop and enforce a schedule for the publication of raw data feeds and common application programming interface standards to allow members of the public to access, utilize and interface with the data through ok.gov. It also directs the CIO to establish a standardized social media policy for state agencies, boards, commissions and public trusts. The measure also requires state agencies, boards, commissions and public trusts with the state as a beneficiary to abide by and comply with directions of the CIO regarding the publication of raw data feeds. The measure also adds language directing the state purchasing director to authorize the two-way communication between purchasing officials and prospective vendors and bidders who inquire as to the details of an issued request for proposal or invitation to bid, and it directs public access procedures for that communication. The measure also directs the state purchasing director to notify interested bidders via e-mail upon the issuance of an RFP or ITB and inform competing bidders of their elimination from consideration for a contract within five days. It also directs the director to develop and implement a strategy for using low-cost strategic sourcing services and online reverse auctions as a component of awarding contracts. The measure requires institutions of higher education to provide to the Office of State Finance a complete a listing in electronic format all transactions occurring with the a state purchase card. It also recodifies certain statutory language related to state policy and procedures for destruction or disposal of electronic storage media and reports for a portal system for license application. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jason Murphey (H), Clark Jolley (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2010 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 03/01/2010 | Current Status: | Bill Failed - House | |
| HB2334 | Paraphrase: | creates the State Agency Consolidation Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jason Murphey (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2343 | Paraphrase: | removes language related to a prohibition on smoking in buildings owned or operated by the state and the allowance of a smoking room. It prohibits smoking within 25 feet of the entrance or exit to buildings owned or operated by the state, a county or a municipality or buildings that contain spaces owned or operated by the state, a county or municipality. It removes certain exemptions allowed under the smoking ban, leaving in place the exemption granted workplaces within private residences except for licensed child care facilities; medical research or treatment centers if smoking is integral to the research or treatment; and any outdoor seating area of a restaurant. It removes the definitions of "health facility," "stand-alone bar," "stand-alone tavern" and "cigar bar" under the Smoking in Public Places and Indoor Workplaces Act. The measure also removes language allowing an employer to provide smoking rooms where no work is performed. It repeals statutory language related to smoking in gaming areas and simulcast wagering areas. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2581 | Paraphrase: | prohibits individual or group health benefit plans offered, issued or renewed on or after Jan. 1, 2011, from denying coverage for any person on the basis that the person is pregnant or has a pre-existing condition or a past or current health condition. It allows plans to limit coverage on the basis that a person has a pre-existing condition or past or current health condition for up to 12 months, and it requires the insurer to provide coverage of all medical conditions during the period except for those related to the pre-existing condition or past or current health problem. It requires the plan to provide coverage for all health conditions after the 12-month period. The bill prohibits an individual or group health benefit plan offered after Jan. 1, 2011, from considering any condition that arises within 31 days preceding the start date of coverage as a pre-existing condition or past or current health problem. It requires plans offered Jan. 1, 2011, to Jan. 1, 2015, to limit the rate of increase for policy renewal to 15 percent over the four-year period. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Al McAffrey (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2619 | Paraphrase: | prohibits any individual or group health benefit plan, including the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, offered or renewed on or after Jan. 1, 2011, from denying coverage on the basis that the individual is a victim of domestic violence and that such classification is a pre-existing condition. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Eric Proctor (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2622 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Sunrise Act, stating that the Legislature declares no regulation can be imposed on any occupation unless required for the safety and well being of the state's citizens. It establishes a procedure for implementing regulation of an occupation if regulation is necessary. It states that a person may participate in a lawful occupation free of unreasonable occupational regulations. The bill requires a legislative author or proponents of a bill proposing new or expanded regulation of an occupation to submit within 15 days of introducing such bill a written report to the chair of the standing committee in each house to which the bill was referred. It also requires such reports to be filed by an agency, board or commission considering a new rule or interpretation of existing rules or statutes. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Dan Kirby (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2652 | Paraphrase: | reduces from 10 to eight the number of judges on the Workers' Compensation Court. It requires five of the judges to be permanently assigned to Oklahoma City and three to Tulsa. It increases from six years to eight years the terms of Workers' Compensation Court judges, and it allows judges to serve an additional term after at least three years have passed. It also allows judges currently serving on the court to be eligible for an initial eight-year term upon expiration of the current term. The bill also requires Senate approval of gubernatorial nominations to the court. It states that if the Senate fails to grant approval within 90 days, the governor can select from the two remaining nominees or request additional nominees from the Judicial Nominating Commission. It requires Workers' Compensation Court judges to have at least five years of workers' compensation experience prior to appointment. The measure also prohibits the closing of the Tulsa Workers Compensation Court without the approval of the Legislature. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Daniel Sullivan (H), Glenn Coffee (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/11/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2688 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to required insurance coverage for mammography screening, stating that such coverage is not subject to modification by insurers based upon studies or recommendations of medical research entities without specific approval of the Legislature. It states that any female under age 35 is entitled to coverage for mammography screening, provided it is prescribed by a physician based on physical findings or a genetic predisposition to breast cancer. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Lucky Lamons (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2774 | Paraphrase: | creates the Clean Air in Restaurants Act. It authorizes the Department of Health to implement a rebate program to reimburse restaurants for 50 percent of the funds expended, minus depreciation costs, in establishing a designated smoking room prior to Nov. 1, 2010. It grants the rebate only for restaurants that convert to a completely smoke-free environment by Jan. 1, 2013. It directs the department to use proceeds generated by the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Revolving Fund for the rebate program. The measure also creates the Oklahoma Certified Healthy Communities Act, directing the Department of Health to establish and maintain a program for the voluntary certification of communities that promote wellness, encourage the adoption of healthy behaviors and establish safe and supportive environments. It also creates the Oklahoma Healthy Communities Advisory Committee to work with the department to develop criteria for community certification. It directs the department and the committee to develop an online scoring system based on the criteria developed. It directs the program to recognize three levels of certification: basic, merit and excellence certifications. The bill also creates the Oklahoma Certified Healthy Schools Act, directing the Department of Health to establish and maintain a program for the voluntary certification of schools that promote wellness, encourage the adoption of healthy behaviors and establish safe and supportive environments. It creates the Oklahoma Health Schools Advisory Committee to work with the department to develop criteria for basic, merit and excellence certifications. The bill also allows the department to provide monetary awards for schools that earn certification, subject to available funding, to be used for the enhancement of wellness activities and the promotion of healthy environments. It also directs the department to develop an online application form for schools seeking to become certified. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Kris Steele (H), Clark Jolley (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB2920 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Maternal-Infant Quality Care Act and the Oklahoma Maternal-Infant Quality Care Collaborative until Dec. 31, 2015, to identify, implement and monitor ways to remove barriers to hospitals and providers in providing safe, quality maternal-infant care; provide mothers and newborns access to safe, quality health care; maximize resources; and focus on improving outcomes in certain areas. It directs the collaborative to submit a report to the governor, House speaker and Senate president pro tempore by Dec. 31, 2011, and Dec. 31 of each year thereafter. The CCR replaces the previous language with language that creates the Shaken Baby Prevention Education Initiative. It creates until Dec. 31, 2015, the Shaken Baby Prevention Education Initiative Task Force to identify evidence-based models for reducing the incidence of abusive head trauma in infants and develop a plan for implementing the models. The CCR requires the task force to report its findings to the governor, House speaker and Senate president pro tempore by Dec. 31, 2011, and Dec. 31 of each year thereafter. | ||
| Principal Authors: | John Trebilcock (H), Clark Jolley (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2010 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 06/08/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB3208 | Paraphrase: | creates the Professions and Occupations Act of 2010. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Don Armes (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB3256 | Paraphrase: | allows a certified registered nurse anesthetist, in collaboration with a medical doctor, osteopathic physician, podiatric physician or dentist, to order, select, obtain and administer legend drugs, Schedules II through V controlled dangerous substances, devices and medical gases. It removes language allowing use of certain anesthesia during preanesthetic preparation or evaluation and administering of drugs during perioperative or periobstetrical periods. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Gus Blackwell (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB3412 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Sunrise Act, declaring that no regulation can be imposed on any occupation unless required for the safety and well being of citizens. It sets forth factors for the Legislature to consider in determining whether an occupation should be regulated. The bill states that if the Legislature or a state agency, board or commission finds it necessary to regulate an occupation, it is to be regulated first by creation or extension of common law; second by enactment of business regulations or inclusion of the commercial activity in a deceptive trade practice act; third by imposition of inspection requirements and the ability to enforce injunctive relief; fifth by implementation of a system of registration; sixth by implementation of a system of certification; and sixth by implementation of a system of licensing. It allows a person to participate in a lawful occupation free from unreasonable occupational regulations. It requires a legislative author or proponents of a new or expanded regulation of occupation bill to submit to the chair of the standing committee to which the bill is assigned a report in support of the regulation of a health-related or non-health-related occupation. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jason Nelson (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0001 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0014 | Paraphrase: | requires health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after Jan. 1, 2010, to fully cover any health care services that are deemed by a health care professional to be medically necessary to treat a health condition, illness, injury or disease. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jim Wilson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0017 | Paraphrase: | appropriates $5 million to the Department of Health to establish and maintain a public umbilical cord blood bank. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jay Paul Gumm (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0023 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0034 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0046 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0246 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0260 | Paraphrase: | creates the Intractable Pain Treatment Act, allowing a physician to prescribe or administer a controlled dangerous substance to a person in the course of his/her treatment of the person for intractable pain. The bill prohibits a hospital or other health care facility from prohibiting or restricting the use of a controlled dangerous substance prescribed by a physician who has staff privileges at the hospital or facility for a person diagnosed and treated by him/her for intractable pain. It authorizes a physician to treat a patient with an acute or chronic painful medical condition with a controlled dangerous substance. The measure requires the physician to undertake certain procedures to ensure the appropriateness of the treatment. The bill also exempts physicians from disciplinary action by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision or the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners for prescribing or administering a controlled dangerous substance in the course of treating a person with intractable pain. It also establishes the Intractable Pain Treatment Advisory Committee to advise the Board of Pharmacy on matters relating to intractable pain treatment. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jay Paul Gumm (S), John Carey (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0263 | Paraphrase: | creates Steffanie's Law for Clinical Trial Access, requiring any health benefit plan, including the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, that is offered or renewed on or after Jan. 1, 2010, to provide coverage for routine patient care costs incurred as a result of the patient's participation in phases one through four of cancer clinical trials under certain conditions. It allows health benefit plans to impose deductibles, coinsurance requirements and other cost-sharing provisions. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Tom Adelson (S), Sean Burrage (S), Kenneth Corn (S), Judy Eason McIntyre (S), Jay Paul Gumm (S), Charlie Laster (S), Debbe Leftwich (S), Andrew Rice (S), Joe Sweeden (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0267 | Paraphrase: | allows funds of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund to be used for capital expenditures and operating expenses incurred by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine for educational programs and residency training. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/13/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0310 | Paraphrase: | makes scholarships established through the Oklahoma Health Care Workers and Educators Assistance Fund subject to available funds. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Susan Paddack (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 05/11/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0322 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to the Healthy and Fit Kids Act. It directs rather than encourages each public school site's Healthy and Fit School Advisory Committee to use the School Health Index developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess its student body beginning Sept. 1, 2009. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), Ann Coody (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/22/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0342 | Paraphrase: | clarifies procedures for written notice of disposal of unclaimed property and allows notice by publication in a newspaper permitted to print legal notices. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S), Daniel Sullivan (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/22/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0351 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0353 | Paraphrase: | modifies the Governmental Tort Claims Act to expand the definition of "political subdivision" to include a public trust created after Jan. 1, 2009, the primary purpose of which is to own, manage or operate a public acute care hospital in the state that serves as a teaching hospital for a medical residency program provided by a college of osteopathic medicine and provides care to indigent persons. It also includes a corporation in which all of the capital stock is owned, or a limited liability company in which all of the member interest is owned, by a public trust. The measure also changes reference from the Volunteer Medical Professional Services Immunity Act to the Volunteer Professional Services Immunity Act. It states that any volunteer professional or any organization that arranges for the care given by the volunteer professional is to be immune from liability in a civil action. It removes language requiring written statements to be executed by volunteer medical professionals and individuals responsible for minors or other legally incapacitated persons before volunteer medical services are provided. It expands the description of "volunteer professional" and "referred volunteer professional" to include physician assistants. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Andrew Rice (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 05/26/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0378 | Paraphrase: | adds to the list of immunizations for which health benefit plans must provide coverage for children of the insured to include pneumococcus, meningococcus, rotavirus, human papillomavirus, influenza and any other immunization recommended for routine use by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice. The bill prohibits benefits for such immunizations from being discounted due to network agreements, preferred provider organization contracts or other contracts that would result in less than 100 percent reimbursement of the actual retail cost of the immunization. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Andrew Rice (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0479 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 04/09/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0532 | Paraphrase: | requires insurers, upon a verification request, to inform physicians and/or health care providers whether services are to be paid by the insurer and detail any deductibles, copayments or coinsurance for which the insured is responsible. It prohibits insurers from denying or reducing payments for verified services unless the physician and/or health care provider materially misrepresented the care or failed to perform the proposed services. It requires insurers to provide payment as verified if the insurer subsequently determines the patient was not covered at the time services were rendered. | ||
| Principal Authors: | John Sparks (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0560 | Paraphrase: | extends from Jan. 1, 2007, to 2009 the applicability of the salary schedule for chief executive officers of agencies, boards, commissions, departments and programs. It also removes the Oklahoma Board of Nursing from the salary schedule. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Mike Johnson (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 03/11/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0580 | Paraphrase: | permits long-term care facility pharmacies to maintain controlled dangerous substances in an emergency electronic medication kit used at the facility. The bill limits the use of the substances to emergency medication needs of residents of the long-term care facility. The bill also requires the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy to establish rules related to emergency medical kits. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Sean Burrage (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/21/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0755 | Paraphrase: | requires any person who witnesses and/or suspects a criminal act at a long-term care facility to immediately report the act to the facility administrator or designee. It requires the witness and the administrator or designee to immediately notify emergency medical services, if requested, and the local municipal police department or sheriff's office. It prescribes which criminal acts are to be reported. It also requires notification of the victim's legal representative, the office of the attorney general and the State Department of Health. The bill requires preservation of the suspected crime scene. If a sexual assault or rape is suspected, the bill requires that the victim receive an examination from a sexual assault nurse examiner, physician or registered nurse, with the consent of the victim or his/her legal representative. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Andrew Rice (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0810 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Sleep Diagnostic Testing Regulation Act. The bill requires that sleep diagnostic tests be ordered by a physician and conducted in or under the direction of personnel of a sleep diagnostic testing facility that meets certain standards. The bill prohibits any facility or individual from conducting sleep diagnostic testing without having first complied with the act. The bill designates the State Department of Health as the official agency for regulator activities related to sleep diagnostic testing centers. It directs the State Board of Health to promulgate rules. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jonathan Nichols (S), Randy Terrill (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 08/26/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/27/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1036 | Paraphrase: | creates a task force to study smoking in public places. It stipulates that the task force will look into the laws of other states, the health effects of public smoking, the economic impact of smoking bans on local businesses and make policy recommendations on ways to improve the state's smoking laws. It also stipulates that there shall be eight members who are to receive staff support from the Department of Health. | ||
| Principal Authors: | David Myers (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 09/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/22/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1042 | Paraphrase: | expands exemptions under the Home Care Act to include an individual, agency or organization that contracts with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to provide services under the home and community-based waiver for the elderly or that contract with the Department of Human Services to provide community services to the elderly. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), Gus Blackwell (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1047 | Paraphrase: | creates the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program within the Department of Health. It also transfers all powers, duties, funding allocations, equipment, facilities and other assets and liabilities to the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program within under the department. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1087 | Paraphrase: | 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: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1129 | Paraphrase: | creates the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, which applies to volunteer health practitioners registered with a registration system established in the act and who provide health or veterinary services in this state for a host entity while an emergency declaration is in effect. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Patrick Anderson (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/21/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1133 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Interventional Pain Management and Treatment Act, making it unlawful to practice or offer to practice interventional pain management in the state unless one is licensed under the provisions of the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act or the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act. It directs the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to establish guidelines for the standard of care for interventional pain management, including the proper use of fluoroscopy in such practice. It allows the board to impose administrative penalties against anyone who violates any provision of the act or any rule promulgated by the board. The bill allows for osteopathic physicians engaged in interventional pain management to be licensed by the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners. In the House, the bill was amended to include language stating that the Interventional Pain Management and Treatment Act does not prevent a certified registered nurse anesthetist from administering a lumbar intralaminar epidural steroid injection when requested to do so by a physician and under the timely, on-site supervision of an allopathic or osteopathic physician. It prohibits a CRNA from operating a freestanding pain management facility without direct supervision of a physician who is board certified in interventional pain management or its equivalent. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), John Trebilcock (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 03/02/2010 | Current Status: | House Amendments - Read | |
| SB1135 | Paraphrase: | creates the Task Force on Dining Information and Nutritional Education and establishes the task force's membership and duties. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Randy Bass (S), Wes Hilliard (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1181 | Paraphrase: | modifies the Oklahoma Pharmacy Act. The bill adds definitions and clarifies certain language. It requires Board of Pharmacy's executive director be someone who is a licensed pharmacist or is eligible to become a licensed pharmacist in the state. It states that standards for hospital drug rooms shall be consistent with the Oklahoma State Department on Health's hospital standards. The bill also clarifies language related to certified registered nurse anesthetists. The bill clarifies language related to the Board of Pharmacy. The bill clarifies language related to reprimands, increasing the maximum fine from $1,000 to $3,000. It also allows the board to impose as part of any disciplinary action the payment of costs expended by the board for legal fees and costs. The bill also allows the board to obtain real property. The bill increases fees of the board. The measure requires every assistant pharmacist to meet the same requirements for pharmacists listed within statute. The bill creates a felony for impersonating a pharmacist and causing patient harm. The bill also prohibits Internet, Web site or online pharmacies from engaging in selling or offering for sale dangerous drugs, medicines, chemicals or poisons or to accept prescriptions for such without first procuring a license from the State Board of Pharmacy, regardless of whether the sale occurs from this state or occurs and is to be delivered, distributed or dispensed in this state. The measure also makes it unlawful to knowingly violate a Board of Pharmacy order or agreed order; compromise the security of licensure examination materials; or fail to notify the board in writing within 10 days of an address change. The bill also clarifies language related to the confidentiality of information collected during investigations. The bill repeals the existing definitions in statute. It also increases to $300 the yearly license fee for optometrist examinations offered by the Board of Examiners in Optometry. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/26/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1251 | Paraphrase: | prohibits health benefit plans from denying coverage, refusing to issue or renew coverage, cancel or otherwise terminate, restrict or exclude any person from any health benefit plan issued or renewed on or after Nov. 1, 2010, on the basis of the applicant's or insured's status as a victim of domestic abuse. It also prohibits health benefit plans from denying a claim on the basis of the insured's status as a victim of domestic violence, and it prohibits domestic abuse from being considered a preexisting condition. In the House, language was added stating that in order to comply with the provisions, the acts constituting the domestic abuse must be reported to a law enforcement agency setting forth the relevant facts. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jim Wilson (S), Mike Brown (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/08/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1311 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to the issuance of special volunteer licenses, allowing it to be issued for a period to be determined by the applicable board. The bill also allows nursing homes with publicly accessible pharmacies to maintain an emergency drug box. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Andrew Rice (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 05/10/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1357 | Paraphrase: | directs the Department of Health to develop a universal transfer form to ensure the secure transition of health information between health care settings when a patient is transferred from one facility to another and to publish the form on the department's Web site by Jan. 1, 2012. It authorizes the department to fine a health care facility up to $500 for each instance a universal transfer form is not completed and provided. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Patrick Anderson (S), Mike Jackson (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1371 | Paraphrase: | prohibits health benefit plans from denying coverage, refusing to issue or renew coverage, cancel or otherwise terminate, restrict or exclude any person from any health benefit plan issued or renewed on or after Nov. 1, 2010, on the basis of the applicant's or insured's status as a victim of domestic abuse. It also prohibits health benefit plans from denying a claim on the basis of the insured's status as a victim of domestic violence, and it prohibits domestic abuse from being considered a preexisting condition. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Debbe Leftwich (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1395 | Paraphrase: | creates the Empowering Patient Decision Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Tom Adelson (S), Colby Schwartz (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1817 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to the treatment of eye diseases in newborns. The bill eliminates language requiring certain medical providers and parents of newborn children to provide certain care. The bill requires physicians, midwives and other individuals attendant at the birth of a child to ensure treatment of the eyes of the infant with a prophylactic ophthalmic agent as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as prophylaxis against ophthalmia neonatorum. The bill also permits a parent or legal guardian of a newborn to refuse the treatment when the person deems it is in the best interest of the child and requires the health care provider to document the refusal in the newborn's medical file. The bill requires the State Board of Health to promulgate rules necessary to implement the legislation. The bill repeals existing language related to the treatment for the inflammation of eyes and reporting requirements for the treatment. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S), Corey Holland (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/04/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB1876 | Paraphrase: | adds language requiring a physical education curriculum to be designed to enable students to develop skills and knowledge necessary to participate in physical activity through life. The bill requires the State Board of Education ensure the Priority Academic Student Skills is consistent with national physical education standards and requires that, on a weekly basis, at least 50 percent of the physical education class be used for actual student physical activity and meets the needs of students of all physical ability levels, among other requirements. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Harry Coates (S), Jeff Hickman (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB2135 | Paraphrase: | prohibits any licensed health care facility from requiring a physician referral before providing mammography services and allows the State Department of Health to fine any such health care facility. The bill also prohibits any group health insurance plan from requiring the referral of a physician or other health care provider for the coverage of a mammogram. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Constance Johnson (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SJR0058 | Paraphrase: | petitions the federal government to opt out of any federal mandates related to health care reform, for waivers to the state Medicaid program to enable Oklahoma to implement its own health care reform measures and to return any taxes collected from Oklahoma citizens or businesses under federal health care reform. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Glenn Coffee (S), Chris Benge (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SJR0059 | Paraphrase: | proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting a law from compelling any person, employer or health care provider from participating in any health care system and allowing a person or employer to pay directly for health care services without being required to pay penalties or fines and allowing a health care provider to accept payment for health care services without being required to pay penalties or fines. It prohibits the purchase or sale of health insurance in private health care systems from being prohibited by law or rule, subject to reasonable and necessary rules that do not substantially limit a person's options. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Dan Newberry (S), Mike Thompson (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/26/2010 | Current Status: | Secretary of State | |
| SJR0064 | Paraphrase: | directs the Oklahoma attorney general to file lawsuit against the U.S. Congress, the president of the United States and the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to prevent the provisions of federal health care legislation from taking effect. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Glenn Coffee (S), Chris Benge (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | / / | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/22/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |