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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2511 By: Pittman
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public health; establishing
requirements under the Maternal Mortality Review Act;
providing requirements for reportin g autopsies;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
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 1-242.5 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. For the purposes of the Maternal Mortality Review Comm ittee,
hospitals and licensed birth centers must make a reasonable and
good-faith effort to report all death s that occur during pregnanc y
or within one (1) year of termination of pregnancy to the local
coroner or medical examiner for consideration of an au topsy.
B. These deaths must be reported within seventy-two (72) hours
after the death occurs.
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C. Medical examiners to whom the death w as reported shall
conduct a death investiga tion, with autopsy strongly recommended but
not required.
D. Autopsies must follow the guidelines for performance of an
autopsy as regulated by the State Department of Health.
SECTION 2. This act shall becom e effective November 1, 2023.
59-1-7035 TJ 12/15/22