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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 919 By: Jett
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to healthcare facilities; requi ring
facilities to publish all policies a nd procedures;
directing promulgation of rules; req uiring facilities
to establish certain p olicies and procedures;
granting certain rights relating to medical records;
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 1-712.1 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in nu mbering, reads as follows:
A hospital, medical facility, or long-term care facility
licensed by the State Department of Health shall publish on its
website, and keep updated, all policies and procedures of the
hospital, medical facility, or long-term care facility. The State
Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules to implement this
section.
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SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-712.2 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, re ads as follows:
A. A hospital, medical facility, or long-term care facility
licensed by the State Department of Health shall establish policies
and procedures necessary to track and document all additions,
deletions, and other edits to a patient’s medical records.
B. Any person shall have the right to obtain, upon request,
detailed information of all additions, deletions, and other edits to
his or her medical records made by a hospital, medical facility, or
long-term care facility, or those of:
1. A minor child of whom the person is the parent or legal
guardian; or
2. Any other patient who lacks capacity to make medical
decisions and for whom the person has legal authority to make such
decisions and would have legal access to the patient ’s medical
records.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effecti ve November 1, 2023.
59-1-1638 DC 1/19/2023 10:45:39 AM