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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 784 By: Hicks
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to childbirth; amending 63 O.S. 2021,
Section 1-740.17, which relates to grants to private
organizations for services ; requiring grant-
supervising entity to reimburse private organizations
for certain services; adding reimbursable services;
updating statutory language; updating statutory
reference; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 63 O.S. 2021, Section 1 -740.17, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1-740.17. A. The State Department of Health shall make
grants, from funds appropriated by th e Legislature specifi cally for
this purpose, to a grant -supervising entity for the purpose of
reimbursing private organizations in Oklaho ma for the reasonable
expenses of programs providing the services described in subsection
B of this section.
B. The grant-supervising entity shall reimburse pri vate
organizations for any and all of the following services:
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1. Providing information on, ref erral to and assistance in
securing the services of relevant existing programs or agencie s that
assist women in Oklahom a to carry their chil dren to term, and/or
providing services that assist women to carry their children to term
including, but not limited to, agencies and programs that will
provide medical attention for the pregnant woman for the duration of
her pregnancy, nutritional support services, stable housing
assistance, adoption services, education and employment assistance ,
and parenting education and support services , and home visitation
programs;
2. Providing women in Oklahoma, in person and through community
outreach, information and/or services that encourage and assist them
to carry their children to term; and
3. Providing services includin g, but not limited to, healthcare
services to mothers and infants for the purpose of redu cing the
rates of maternal mort ality and infant mortality in this state by
three percent (3%) within five (5) years of the effective date of
this act not later than July 1, 2026; provided, however, no funds
shall be provided to an organization that provide s, or whose
affiliates provide, abortion services.
B. C. To be eligible for a service grant, an organization
shall:
1. Be registered with the Oklahoma Secretary of Stat e as a not-
for-profit corporation located in Oklahoma;
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2. Have the grant amount appro ved by a grant-supervising
entity;
3. For services described in paragraphs 1 and 2 of subsection A
B of this section, provide each pregnant woman counseled with
accurate information on the developmental characteristics of unborn
children including offerin g the printed information described in
Section 1-738.3 of Title 63 of the Oklaho ma Statutes;
4. Assure that the grant ’s sole purposes are to assist and
encourage women to carry their children to term and to maximize
their potentials thereafter or to reduc e the rates of maternal
mortality and infant mortality in this state as provided in
paragraph 3 of subsection A B of this section; and
5. Assure that none of the funds provi ded pursuant to the
Choosing Childbirth Act, nor any other funds or services provi ded by
the organization, are used to e ncourage or counsel a woman to have
an abortion not necessary to prevent her death, to provide her such
an abortion or to refer her for such an abortion.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective Nove mber 1, 2023.
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