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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 27, 2025
AS AMENDED
SENATE BILL NO. 176 By: Dossett
[ health benefit plans - coverage - codification -
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, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. “Contraceptive drugs” means all drugs approved by the Unite d
States Food and Drug Administration that are used to prevent
pregnancy including but not limited to hormonal drugs administered
orally, transdermally, an d 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.
B. Any health benefit plan that is offered, issued, or renewed
on or after the effective date of this act that offers coverage for
contraceptive drugs shall provide coverage for an enrollee to
obtain:
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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 once each
subsequent time that the enrollee obtains the same 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 constr ued to prohibit an
enrollee of a health benefit plan from requesting a smaller supply
or to prohibit a prescribing provider from prescribing a smaller
supply if such a prescription is supported by clinical utility and
medical appropriateness.
D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require
coverage under a health benefit plan for any medications that could
be used to terminate an existing pregnancy .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND INSURANCE
February 27, 2025 - DO PASS AS AMENDED