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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 3242 By: Gann
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to health care services
discrimination; prohibiting discrimination based on
health care services ; providing for codification; and
declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1351 of Title 25, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
It shall be unlawful for any public or private employer, entity,
agency, institution, official or person, including , but not limited
to, a medical, nursing or other medical training institution, to
deny admission because of, to place any reference in its application
form concerning, to orally question about, to impose any burdens in
terms or conditions of employment on, or to otherwise discriminate
against, any person, in terms of employment, admissio n to or
participation in any programs for which the person is eligible, or
to discriminate in relation thereto, in any other manner, because of
the person's refusal to receive, obtain, accept, perform, counsel,
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suggest, recommend, refer, assist or particip ate in any way in any
forms of health care services contrary to his or her conscience .
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reaso n whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage an d approval.
58-2-9118 LRB 12/13/21