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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1887 By: May
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public health and safety;
providing definitions; requiring surgical smoke
policies for health care employers; 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 1-706.6 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. "Health care employer " means a hospital as defined in
Section 1-701 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or an ambulatory
surgical facility or outpatient surgical center;
2. "Smoke evacuation system " means equipment that effectively
captures and filters surgical smoke at the site of origin before the
smoke makes contact with the eyes or the respiratory tract of
occupants in the room; and
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3. "Surgical smoke" means the gaseous by -product produced by
energy-generating devices includi ng surgical plume, smoke plume,
bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, or long -
damaging dust.
B. A health care employer shall adopt and implement policies to
prevent exposure to surgical smoke by requiring the use of a smoke
evacuation system during any surgical procedure that is likely to
generate surgical smoke.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-11652 TJ 01/07/25