Oklahoma 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB1049 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/16/2025

                             
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
SENATE BILL 1049 	By: Standridge 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to health care; creating the Wrongful 
Life Act; providing short title; prohibiting 
physician or other health care professional from 
providing certain services to a minor; prohibiting 
parent or legal guardian from consenting to certain 
services; authorizing certain civil actions; 
specifying who may bring an action; allowing 
unlimited time period for commencement of an ac tion 
subject to certain conditions; creating certain 
rebuttable presumption; pr oviding for dismissal of 
cause of action under certain condition; authorizing 
award of certain damages or relief; providing for 
recovery of court costs and reasonable attorney f ees; 
providing certain construction; 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 2607.1 a of Title 63, unless 
there is created a duplicat ion in numbering, reads as follows: 
This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Wrongful Life 
Act”.   
 
 
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SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be co dified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2607.1b of Title 63, unless 
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  A physician or other health care professional shall not 
prescribe to or perform on any individual under eighteen (18) years 
of age: 
1.  Gender transition surgery; 
2.  Hormone therapy; or 
3.  Puberty-blocking drugs, unless such drugs are medically 
necessary.  For the purpose of this paragraph, a gender transition 
shall not constitute medical necessity. 
B.  A person may bri ng an action against a physician or other 
health care professional who prescribed or performed gender 
transition surgery, hormone therapy, or puberty -blocking drugs if 
the gender transition surgery, hormone therapy, or puberty -blocking 
drugs caused the per son to not be able to enjoy the natural 
reproductivity functions of childbearin g and rearing that the person 
would have enjoyed if not for the gender transition surgery, hormone 
therapy, or puberty-blocking drugs. 
C.  If the person is under eighteen (18) y ears of age, he or she 
may bring an action throughout his or her minority through a parent 
or legal guardian, and may bring an action in his or her own name 
upon reaching majority.   
 
 
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D.  1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall 
be no time limitation for the commencement of an action brought 
under this section except as provided by this subsection. 
2.  There shall be a rebuttable presumption that the plaintiff, 
based solely on his or her age, would be capable of bearing children 
if not for the gender transition surgery, hormone therapy, or 
puberty-blocking drugs. 
3.  If the presumption described in paragraph 2 of this 
subsection is successfully rebutted, the court shall dismiss the 
cause of action. 
E.  A plaintiff who establishes a violation of subsection A of 
this section and who can show that he or she has suffered ha rm as 
described in subsection B of this section may be granted: 
1.  Compensatory damages appropriate to the loss of natural 
reproductivity functions as described in subsection B of this 
section; 
2.  Punitive damages; or 
3.  Any other appropriate relief. 
F.  A plaintiff who establishes a violation of subsection A of 
this section and who can show that he or she has suffered harm as 
described in subsection B of this section shall re cover court costs 
and reasonable attorney fees.   
 
 
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SECTION 3.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2607. 1c of Title 63, unless 
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A. A parent or legal guardian shall not consent, on behalf of 
any individual under eighteen (18) years of age for whom the parent 
or legal guardian has the authority to make medical decisions, to 
the prescription or performance of the following treatments b y a 
physician or other health care professional: 
1.  Gender transition surgery; 
2.  Hormone therapy; or 
3.  Puberty-blocking drugs, unless such drugs are medically 
necessary.  For the purpose of this paragraph, a gender transition 
shall not constitute medi cal necessity. 
B.  If a person received gender transition surgery, hormone 
therapy, or puberty-blocking drugs while such person was under 
eighteen (18) years of age and if the gender transition surgery, 
hormone therapy, or puberty-blocking drugs caused the person to not 
be able to enjoy the natural reproductivity functions of 
childbearing and rearing that the person would have enjoyed if not 
for the gender transition surgery, hormone therapy, or puberty-
blocking drugs, the person may bring an action against his or her 
parent or legal guardian who consented to the gender transition 
surgery, hormone therapy, or puberty-blocking drugs on behalf of the 
minor.   
 
 
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C.  If the person is under eighteen (18) years of age, he or she 
may bring an action: 
1.  Throughout his or her minority through a parent or legal 
guardian, provided that the parent o r legal guardian is not the same 
parent or legal guardian who consented to the gender transition 
surgery, hormone therapy, or puberty-blocking drugs on behalf of the 
minor; and 
2.  In his or her own name upon reaching majority. 
D.  1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall 
be no time limitation for the commencement of an action brought 
under this section except as provided by this subsection. 
2.  There shall be a rebuttable presumption that the plaintiff, 
based solely on his or her age, wo uld be capable of bearing children 
if not for the gender transition surgery, hormone therapy, or 
puberty-blocking drugs. 
3.  If the presumption described in paragraph 2 of this 
subsection is successfully rebutted, the court shall dismiss the 
cause of action. 
E.  A plaintiff who establishes a violation of subsection A of 
this section and who can show that he or she has suffered harm as 
described in subsection B of this section may be granted: 
1.  Compensatory damages appropriate to the loss of natural 
reproductivity functions as described in subsection B of this 
section;   
 
 
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2.  Punitive damages; or 
3.  Any other appropriate relief. 
F.  A plaintiff who establishes a violation of subsec tion A of 
this section and who can show that he or she has suffered harm as 
described in subsection B of this section shall recover court costs 
and reasonable attorney fees. 
G.  In addition to the other remedies provided by this 
subsection, a parent or leg al guardian found to have violated 
subsection A of this section, in cases where there are potentially 
grave long-term effects on the child, shall, upon conviction, be 
guilty of child abuse punishable as provided in Section 843.5 of 
Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes. 
SECTION 4.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2607.1d of Title 63, unless 
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
The violations, penalties, and remedies provided by this act 
shall be in addition to those provided by Section 2607.1 of Title 63 
of the Oklahoma Statu tes.  This act shall not be construed to 
supersede, replace, or abrogate any of the provisions of Section 
2607.1 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Sta tutes. 
SECTION 5.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 
 
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