Oklahoma 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB1018 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 12/16/2024

                             
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
HOUSE BILL 1018 	By: McCane 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to health care; prohibiting 
unauthorized pelvic examinations; providing 
exceptions; providing for codification; and provi ding 
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 -761 of Title 63, unless there 
is created a duplica tion in numbering, reads as follows: 
A physician, medical student, resident, A dvanced Practice 
Registered Nurse, registered nurse, or physician assistant shall not 
perform a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious 
female patient unless: 
1.  That patient gave informed written consent to the pelvic 
examination; 
2.  The performance of the pelvic examination is within the 
scope of care for a surgical procedure or diagnostic examination; or   
 
 
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3.  In the case of a patient incapable of giving informed 
consent, the pelvic examination is required for diagnosis or 
treatment of such patient. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 
 
60-1-11094 TJ 12/13/24