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OK SB2069

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/1/2010

Primary Sponsor

Harry Coates

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Origin

Senate

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Directs the State Department of Health to promulgate rules and forms for collecting data on all deaths in Oklahoma, with specific focus on deaths related to drugs, alcohol, or combinations thereof.

  • Requires medical examiners, funeral directors, hospital administrators, physicians, nurses, and law enforcement officers to report deaths on state-prescribed forms by the time the body leaves their control.

  • Mandates the State Department of Health to compile annual statistical reports on drug and alcohol-related deaths and deliver them to the Governor, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and State Board of Funeral Directors by November 1 each year from 2011 through 2017.

  • Establishes that individual report forms are confidential and not public records, while compiled statistical reports may be used for public education and state resource allocation for substance abuse prevention and treatment.

  • Grants immunity from civil liability to any person who submits or receives data in good faith under the act and declares an emergency effective date of July 1, 2010.

Legislative Description

Public health and safety; requiring death reports. Effective date. Emergency.

Government

Last Action

Second Reading referred to Appropriations

2/2/2010

Committee Referrals

Appropriations2/2/2010

Full Bill Text

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