| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |