STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1455	By:	Cox

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to public health and safety; requiring test for human immunodeficiency virus in certain circumstance; defining term; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

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 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 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

53-1-5433	AM	12/27/10