SB800 Summary

• Amends 63 O.S. 2011, Section 2-309D to regulate access to the Anti-Drug Diversion Act central repository, which remains confidential and not open to the public.

• Permits access to repository data by peace officers, federal agents, state licensing boards, grand juries, federal medical practitioners, and medical providers at the Director's discretion for legitimate investigative and clinical purposes.

• Requires registrants (prescribers) to check the central repository prior to prescribing opiates, synthetic opiates, semisynthetic opiates, benzodiazepines, or carisoprodol, with certain exemptions for hospice, end-of-life care, and nursing facility patients, until October 31, 2020.

• Establishes that registrants cannot be held liable for damages resulting from accessing or failing to access repository information and protects those reporting overdose information.

• Requires medical examiners to report overdose deaths to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, which must maintain a database of prescribers involved in such cases; effective November 1, 2017.