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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 427 By: Jett
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to health care facilities; requiring
facilities to publish all policies and procedures;
directing promulgation of rules; re quiring facilities
to establish certain policies and procedures;
granting certain rights relat ed to medical records;
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 -712.1 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A hospital, medical facility, or long -term care facility
licensed by the State Department of Health shall publish on its
website, and keep updated, all policies and procedures of the
hospital, medical facility, or long -term care facility. The State
Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules to implement this
section.
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SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be co dified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1 -712.2 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A hospital, medical facility, or long -term care facility
licensed by the State Department of Health shall establish policies
and procedures necessary to track and document all additions,
deletions, and other edits to a patient ’s medical records.
B. Any person shall have the right to obtain, upo n request,
detailed information of all additions, deletions, and other edits t o
his or her medical records made by a hospital, medical facility, or
long-term care facility, or those of:
1. A minor child of whom the person is the parent or legal
guardian; or
2. Any other patient who lacks capacity to make medical
decisions and for whom the person has legal authority to make such
decisions and would have legal access to the patient ’s medical
records.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effecti ve November 1, 2025.
60-1-1568 DC 1/7/2025 12:07:27 PM