Health & Human Services Committee clears a package of bills, including parental-records, right-to-try and medical-board technical fixes
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The committee passed a number of member and committee bills — including measures on fetal-death certification, group-home definitions, right-to-try individualized treatments, and medical-board statute cleanups — largely with brief explanations and voice or near-unanimous roll-call votes.
The Health and Human Services Committee considered and cleared a package of bills from committee members and authors, most with limited debate. Notable actions included passage of bills that would:
- Require officials to inform grieving parents of their right to receive official certification following a fetal death or miscarriage (Senate Bill 14‑36). - Clarify the definition of a child for licensing certain group homes so that OJA youth over 18 may be placed in level‑E group homes (Senate Bill 15‑58). - Update the ‘‘right to try for individualized treatment’’ to cover certain genetic and metabolic therapies for people with terminal or severely debilitating disease (Senate Bill 9‑33), a measure requested by the Goldwater Institute. - Make technical and licensing clarifications requested by the Oklahoma Medical Board (Senate Bill 16‑51) and modernize parental access to minor medical records with statutory safeguards (Senate Bill 13‑28).
Most of these items drew little or no debate and recorded unanimous or near‑unanimous roll-call votes in committee. The chair announced the committee will reconvene if needed to consider a tier‑1 nomination and then adjourned.