Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB176 Amended / Bill

Filed 04/23/2025

                     
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION 
 
STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
ENGROSSED SENATE 
BILL NO. 176 	By: Dossett of the Senate 
 
  and 
 
  Roe, Cantrell, Archer, and 
Hefner of the House 
 
 
 
 
 
An Act relating to health benefi t plans; defining 
terms; requiring coverage for certain prescription; 
construing provisions; 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 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 United 
States Food and Drug Administration that are used to prevent 
pregnancy including but not limited to hormonal drugs administered 
orally, transdermally, and 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.   
 
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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: 
1.  A three-month supply of a contraceptive drug at once the 
first time the enrollee obtains the drug; and 
2.  A six-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 six-month supply of a covered 
prescription drug during each six-month period. 
C.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to proh ibit 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 sect ion 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 COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 
OVERSIGHT, dated 04/23/2025 - DO PASS.