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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 933 By: Stanley
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to h ealth care facilities ; defining
terms; requiring certain facilities to adopt and
implement certain policy related to surgical smoke;
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 Sectio n 1-708a of Title 63, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, read s as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. “Surgical smoke” means the gaseous by -product, including
surgical plume, smoke plume, bio -aerosols, laser-generated airborne
contaminants, and lung-damaging dust, produced by an energy -
generating device used in a room in which a surgical procedure is
performed; and
2. “Surgical smoke evacuation system ” means equipment designed
to capture and neutralize surgical smoke at the site of o rigin and
before the surgical smoke makes contact with the eyes or respiratory
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tract of any individual occupying a room in which a surgical
procedure is performed.
B. A hospital or ambulatory surgical center licensed by the
State Department of Health shal l adopt and implement a policy to
prevent an individual ’s exposure to surgical smoke through the use
of a surgical smoke evacuation system during each planned surgical
procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-786 DC 1/16/2025 11:50:33 AM