Oklahoma 2024 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB1742 Comm Sub / Bill

Filed 02/13/2024

                     
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024) 
 
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE 
FOR 
SENATE BILL 1742 	By: Dossett 
 
 
 
 
 
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE 
 
An Act relating to health benefit plans; defining 
terms; requiring reimbursement of certain 
prescriptions with certain supply amount; specif ying 
terms of coverage; construing provisions; 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 6060.3b of Title 36, unless 
there is created a duplication in numbering, r eads as follows: 
A.  As used in this section: 
1.  “Contraceptive drugs” means all drugs approved by the United 
States Food and Drug Administration that are used to prevent 
pregnancy, including, but not limited to, hormonal drugs 
administered orally, transdermal ly, and intravaginally; and 
2.  “Health benefit plan” means a health benefit plan as defined 
pursuant to Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes .   
 
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B.  Any health benefit plan that is offered, issued, or renewed 
on and after the effective d ate of this act that offers coverage for 
contraceptive drugs shall provide coverage for an enrollee to 
obtain: 
1. A three-month supply of a contraceptive drug at once the 
first time the enrollee obtains the drug; and 
2.  A twelve-month supply of the contraceptive drug at on ce each 
subsequent time that the enrollee obtains the sam e drug, regardless 
of whether the enrollee was enrolled in the health benefit plan the 
first time that the enrollee obtained the drug. 
An enrollee may obtain only one twelve-month supply of a covered 
prescription drug during each twelve -month period. 
C.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an 
enrollee of a health benef it plan from requesting a smaller su pply 
or to prohibit a prescribin g provider from prescribing a smaller 
supply if such a prescription is supported by clini cal utility and 
medical appropriateness . 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective Novemb er 1, 2024. 
 
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