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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 3880 By: Crosswhite Hader
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to counties and county of ficers;
authorizing counties to de signate hospitals for
certain purposes; allowing co unties to deny housing
arrestees when medically inadvisable; providing an
exception; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A n ew section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 530 of Title 19, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A county may designate one or more hospitals within the
county to determine whether or not it is medically advisable for an
arrestee to be housed in the county jail.
B. If such a designated hospital deems it medically inadvisable
for an arrestee to be housed in the county jail, then the county
shall not be required to house such arrestee.
C. Nothing in this section shall preclude a county from
agreeing to house an arrestee in the county ja il or in another
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place, even if a hospital deems it medically inadvisable for the
arrestee to be housed in the county jail.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
58-2-9369 GRS 01/04/22