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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 806 By: Pugh
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to nutrition services; creating the
Food is Medicine Act; providing short title; creating
certain financial incentive for c ontracted entities
under the state Medicaid program; directing the
Oklahoma Health Care Authority to seek federal
approval to expand certain nutrition services;
describing Food is Medicine Initiative; authorizing
certain covered services; directing the Sta te
Department of Education to provide technical
assistance related to the Okla homa Farm to School
Program Act; providing for noncodification; providing
for codification; providing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Food is
Medicine Act”.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 4002.14a of Title 56, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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Subject to receipt of any necessary federal approval for the
Food is Medicine Initiative under Section 3 of this act, the
Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall implement a financial incentive
for contracted entities who improve health outcomes of covered
members through nutrition services provided under the initiative.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5009.7 of Title 63, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall seek any ne cessary
federal approval to expand covered nutrition services under the
state Medicaid program for the purpose of implementing a Food is
Medicine Initiative.
B. The Food is Medicine Initiative shall be designed to improve
health outcomes for Medicaid memb ers through nutrition services and
reduce the need for medical care.
C. Nutrition services covered under the Food is Medicine
Initiative may include, but are not limited to:
1. Case management;
2. Nutrition counseling;
3. Meals or pantry stocking;
4. Nutrition prescriptions; and
5. Grocery provisions.
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SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5 -147.2 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follow s:
The State Department of Education shall provide, to schools who
apply for grants under the Oklahoma Farm to School Program Act
codified at Section 5-60.1 et seq. of Title 2 of the Oklahoma
Statutes, technical assistance with applying for grants and
administering programs that expand student access to fresh, healthy
food.
SECTION 5. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 6. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or s afety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act sh all take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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