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OK HB1344

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Justin Humphrey

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes prescribers to issue prescriptions for off-label drugs (FDA-approved for one condition but prescribed for another) with informed consent from patient, parent/guardian, or health care power of attorney holder.

  • Permits pharmacists and hospitals/inpatient facilities to dispense off-label drugs unless they have moral, ethical, or religious objections, or documented life-threatening allergies or contraindications exist.

  • Provides immunity from administrative and civil liability for pharmacists, hospitals, and inpatient facilities that dispense off-label drugs in good faith and document their objective scientific basis for objections.

  • Allows outpatient physicians to apply for temporary privileges (approval within 5 days) at hospitals/inpatient facilities to prescribe off-label drugs for critically ill patients; permits patient-owned drugs to be brought into facilities and administered by alternative prescribers if in-house providers decline.

  • Prohibits health-related licensing boards from disciplining prescribers or pharmacists for actions under this law except for recklessness or gross negligence, and bars the World Health Organization from having jurisdiction over off-label prescribing in Oklahoma; effective November 1, 2025.

Legislative Description

Prescriptions for off-label medications; terms; moral, ethical, or religious exemptions; immunity from liability; good- faith effort; temporary privileges; at-home and outpatient dispensing; disciplinary action; exceptions; World Health Organization; effective date.

Last Action

Second Reading referred to Rules

2/4/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules2/4/2025

Full Bill Text

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