OK SB1251

Health insurance plans cannot deny coverage, refuse to issue or renew, cancel, terminate, restrict, or exclude individuals based on their status as a victim of domestic abuse, effective November 1, 2010.

Health insurance plans are prohibited from denying claims based on an insured's status as a victim of domestic violence.

Domestic abuse cannot be classified or considered as a preexisting condition under any health benefit plan.

Defines "health benefit plan" to include individual and group coverage, HMOs, PPOs, the State and Education Employees Group Health Insurance Plan, Title XIX programs, and MEWAs or self-insured plans not exempt under federal ERISA.

Requires that acts constituting domestic abuse be reported to a law enforcement agency to comply with the law's provisions.