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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2793 By: Stinson
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to professions and occupations;
amending 59 O.S. 2021, Section 482, which relates to
the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical
Licensure and Supervision Act ; removing prohibition;
and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 59 O .S. 2021, Section 482, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 482. Physician members of the State Board of Medical
Licensure and Supervision shall be appointed for terms of seven (7)
years. The lay members of the Board shall serve terms coterminous
with that of the Governor and until a qualified successor has been
duly appointed and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. No
member shall be appointed to serve more than two complete
consecutive terms. Each ph ysician member shall hold office until
the expiration of the term for which appoint ed or until a qualified
successor has been duly appointed. An appointment shall be made by
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the Governor within ninety (90) days after the expiration of the
term of any member or the occurrence of a vacancy on the Board due
to resignation, death, or any ca use resulting in an unexpired term.
The appointment of allopathic physicians shall be made from a list
of three names submitted to the Governor by the Oklahoma State
Medical Association. The Association may submi t names of members or
nonmembers of the As sociation. No member of the Board shall be a
stockholder in or full -time salaried or full -time geographic member
of the faculty or board of trustees of any medical school.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH, dated 02/16/2023 -
DO PASS.