2023 BILL TRACKING
The Oklahoma Public Health Association's Policy Committee works to identify state public health policy issues and promote the passage of health policies and laws that are best practice in public health. Each year, the Policy Committee, with the input of membership and approval from the Board of Directors, identifies key legislative priorities and tracks bills that fall within those priorities.
Oklahoma's 2023 Regular Legislative session officially ended on May 26, 2023 (called "Sine Die"). Below on this webpage in tables are the bills OPHA tracked according to our 2023 Public Policy Agenda that were sent to the Governor's desk. Please find the additional 273 bills we tracked throughout the session that went dormant or died (stalled in the legislative process) here. Full PDF reports detailing the progress for all tracked bills throughout the session are organized by agenda topic and linked as "Final Tracking Report" next to the title of each table below.
Bills Tracked - 30 | Updated on Tues. 5/31/23
Jump to Agenda Topic >>> Child Health | Food, Access, & Nutrition | Health Infrastructure | Healthy Populations | Maternal & Reproductive Health | Mental & Behavior Health | Public Health Authority | Tobacco
Child Health | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| HB 1029 | Directs the Dept. of Education to gather information on the number of homeless students in each district and report that information to the Governor, Legislature and the Commission on Children and Youth. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 155 ) |
| HB 1032 | Requires adjudication for any child being held in secure detention on charges as an accused delinquent be conducted within 30 days of the detainment, extensions to be allowed for good cause. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 8 ) |
| HB 1072 | Requires courts to set hearings within 60-days of placing a child in a residential treatment program to assessments and reports made by providers and to determine appropriate next steps. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 43 ) |
| HB 2210 | Authorizes courts to depart from mandatory minimum sentencing requirements when determining sentencing severity for underaged victims of trafficking or assault. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 233 ) |
| HB 2513 | Requires the Legislature to support a Handle With Care Program through the School Security Institute to facilitate coordination between school staff, emergency services, and law enforcement when a child undergoes a traumatic event. |
Pocket Vetoed |
| SB 907 | Creates the Family Representation and Advocacy Act, creating Program of the same name within the Administrative Office of the Courts to ensure uniform and high quality representation for certain parties in state deprived child actions. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 369) Earliest Effective Date: 6/07/2023 |
Food, Access, & Nutrition | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| HB 1542 | Provides immunity from civil liability for restaurants that donate food, in good faith and without compensation, that causes damage. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 17 ) |
Health Infrastructure | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| HB 2010 | Requires certain motorboats to be affixed with a carbon monoxide warning sticker in plain view to the interior of the vessel, to be distributed through Service OK. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 245) |
| HB 2182 | Repeals certain provisions requiring corrections facilities to log and report communicable disease statistics. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 143) |
| HB 2288 | Declares any restriction on real estate transactions or conveyances based on race, national origin, religion, gender or disability to be unenforceable. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 267) |
| HB 2424 | Allows pharmacies to dispense and sell a wider variety of opioid antagonists to counteract overdoses. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 74) |
| SB 230 | Requires the state emergency operations plan include a provision for responses to a catastrophic health emergency. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 207) |
| SB 293 | Establishes a definition for rural emergency hospitals within statute, clarifying that rural establishments typically offering emergency services for 24 hours or less would qualify. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 117) |
| SB 535 | Creates the Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act, which establishes a certificate program for community health workers. |
Dormant pursuant to the rules; Vetoed by the Governor on 5/5/34: "We should let private employers decide whether to employ CHWs rather than expand government." |
Healthy Populations | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| HB 1397 | Requires the Dept. of Education to develop curriculums on specific components of the Civil Rights Movement and on discriminatory injustices committed outside of the United States. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 156) |
| HB 1931 | Removes certain standards which would disqualify persons for TANF benefits due to illegal substance abuse and includes substance abuse treatment and mental health counseling as TANF qualifying job readiness assistance. |
Signed by Governor |
| SB 534 | Changes the maximum adjusted gross income to 300 percent of the federal poverty level for the purpose of qualifying for assistance for a child that is severely developmentally disabled; EMERGENCY. |
Dormant pursuant to the rules; Vetoed by the Governor on 4/26/23: "I will continue to veto any and all legislation authored by Senators who have not stood with the people of Oklahoma and the [tax credit] plan." |
| SB 613 | Prohibits gender affirming treatment and care for any persons under the age of eighteen, physicians to be guilty of unprofessional conduct upon violation. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 150) |
Maternal & Reproductive Health | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| HB 1932 | Extends the same benefits to pregnant TANF applicants as to parents with minor children living in the home. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 203) |
| SB 292 | Requires health care providers to follow certain standards for syphilis testing during pregnancies, such required testing to be covered by health benefit plans. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 116) |
Mental & Behavioral Health | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| HB 1036 | Creates a Veteran Suicide Prevention Task Force to study and make recommendations to the Governor and Legislature related to reducing veteran suicide rates in the state. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 106) |
| HB 1796 | Authorizes the Dept. of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to enter into agreements to serve as a vendor with public sector employers wishing to offer employment assistance programs and services. |
Vetoed by the Governor: "...made it to my desk despite a consequential drafting error." |
| HB 2686 | Requires persons participating in the opioid substitution treatment program to submit to a minimum of eight random, witnessed urine drug screenings annually. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 250) |
| SB 286 | Limits the use of mechanical restraints on persons being transported for mental health services by law enforcement or contracted third parties; EMERGENCY. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 115) |
| SB 557 | Relates to unfair claims settlement practices, requires insurers to cover certain mental health and substance abuse treatments performed by providers with relevant credentials but are not physicians. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 214) |
| SB 710 | Permits qualified school personnel to administer opiate antagonists to persons suspected to be suffering from an overdose regardless of any prescription or standing order; EMERGENCY. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 219) |
| SB 711 | Directs the Dept. of Mental Health to provide opioid antagonists to the Dept. of Corrections and to county jails to be provided to inmates with a known opioid addiction or related condition upon release. |
Veto overridden by House and Senate |
| SB 712 | Directs the Dept. of Mental Health to provide hospitals with opioid antagonists to be given to persons presenting to emergency departments with the symptoms of an opioid overdose or related disorder upon discharge from the hospital. |
Veto overridden by House and Senate |
Public Health Authority | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| SB 225 | Adjusts certain reporting requirements by the Health Care Authority to the Governor and Legislature to require reporting every fifth year rather than odd-numbered years and creates a school nurse pilot program fund. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 328 Earliest Effective Date: 6/06/2023 |
| SB 748 | Requires the Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to designate a physician to issue a statewide order for emergency opioid antagonists so that they may be distributed, possessed, and stored; EMERGENCY. |
Dormant pursuant to the rules; Vetoed by the Governor on 5/1/23: "Since the standing order this bill |
Tobacco | Final Tracking Report | Back to Top
| Bill Number | Bill Description | Last Action |
| HB 2165 | Creates certain fines for minors in possession of tobacco, nicotine, or vapor products and allows for municipalities to enforce ordinances. |
Signed by Governor (Chap: 141) |
For more information on any of the above bills, please visit:
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/WebBillStatus/main.html
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