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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1379 By: Bergstrom
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to professions and occupations;
requiring certain licensing boards to utilize certain
web-based platform for applicat ion and renewal of
professional licenses; requiring Service Oklahoma to
select and host platform; directing execution of
certain interagency agreements; providing ce rtain
construction; authorizing promulgation of rules;
providing for codification; and prov iding 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 6021 of Title 59, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. All licensing boards of this state that license health care
providers or behavioral health providers including, but not limited
to, the following shall utilize the web-based platform described in
subsection B of this section for application and renewal of
professional licenses :
1. The Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners ;
2. The Board of Chiropractic Examiners ;
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3. The Board of Dentistry;
4. The State Board of Pharmacy;
5. The State Board of Medical L icensure and Supervision;
6. The Oklahoma Board of Nursing;
7. The Board of Examiners in Optometry ;
8. The State Board of Osteopathic Examiner s;
9. The State Board of Examiner s of Psychologists;
10. The Board of Examiners for Speech -Language Pathology and
Audiology;
11. The Oklahoma Board of Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor s;
and
12. The State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure .
B. Service Oklahoma shall select the singular web -based
platform for licensing of health care providers and behavioral
health providers in accordance with the Oklahoma Central Purchasing
Act and shall host the platform on its website.
C. Service Oklahoma and a ll licensing boards of this state that
license health care providers or behavioral health providers
including, but not limited to, those listed in subsection A of this
section shall enter into interagency agreements to implement the
provisions of this section.
D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to:
1. Remove, abrogate, reduce, or otherwise affect any power or
duty of a licensing board to establish or enforce licensure
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qualifications, examination requirements , or disciplinary standards
or procedures, or to exercise any other power or duty of the
licensing board provided by law ; or
2. Confer to Service Oklahoma any power or duty of a licensing
board provided by law including, but not limited to, those described
in paragraph 1 of this section. The sole function of Service
Oklahoma under this section shall be to select and host the web -
based platform as provided by s ubsection B of this section.
E. The Executive Director of Service Oklahoma and all licensing
boards covered under this section may promulgate rules as necessary
to implement the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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