ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1826	By:	Trebilcock, Ritze and Shelton of the House

			   and

		Brinkley of the Senate

An Act relating to public health and safety; providing that certain pharmacist shall be required to visit certain center no more than once per month; requiring test for human immunodeficiency virus in certain circumstances; defining term; providing for codification; and declaring an emergency.

SUBJECT:  Public health

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 Section 2663A of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A consultant pharmacist shall be required to visit an ambulatory surgical center no more than one time per month.

SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-515.1 of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  Every physician or any other person permitted by law to attend upon pregnant females in this state, at the time of delivery and only if the pregnant female has had no prenatal care, shall:

1.  Take, or cause to be taken under the order of a physician licensed to practice in this state, a sample of blood from the pregnant female; and
2.  Submit the sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for the human immunodeficiency virus.

B.  The term "approved laboratory" shall mean a laboratory approved for the purposes of this section by the State Commissioner of Health.  A standard serological test for the human immunodeficiency virus shall be one recognized as such by the Commissioner.  Such laboratory tests shall be made, on request, without charge by the State Department of Health.

SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Passed the House of Representatives the 17th day of March, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the House of
	Representatives

Passed the Senate the 13th day of April, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate