ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2219	By:	Faught of the House

			   and

		Aldridge of the Senate

An Act relating to sunset; amending 63 O.S. 2011, Section 91, which relates to the State Anatomical Board; re-creating the Board; and modifying the termination date.

SUBJECT:  State Anatomical Board

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     63 O.S. 2011, Section 91, is amended to read as follows:

Section 91.  There is hereby re-created, to continue until July 1, 2012 2016, in accordance with the provisions of the Oklahoma Sunset Law, an oversight Board to be known as the State Anatomical Board, to be composed of the following members:  The Deans or their designee of each accredited medical school and osteopathic medical school within the State of Oklahoma, the persons heading the Department of Anatomy, or comparable department, in the medical and osteopathic medical schools or their designee and two (2) persons appointed jointly by the presidents of institutions of higher education within the state which have educational programs other than medical which require on a regular basis human anatomical materials, provided that these programs have been approved by the State Regents for Higher Education.  It shall be the duty of the State Anatomical Board to designate agents to provide for the collection, preservation, storage, distribution, delivery, recovery from users, cremation and final disposition of all dead human bodies used for health science education and research in the State of Oklahoma.  The Board shall elect from its membership a chairperson who shall perform such other duties as the Board may prescribe by rule.  The Board shall have full power to establish rules for its government, to appoint and remove officers, and to appoint an executive director who shall keep full and complete minutes of its transactions and manage the affairs of the Board.  The expenditures authorized in this section shall not be a charge against the state, but shall be paid by the agent designated by the Board to receive, store, issue, and cremate human anatomical materials.  Records shall also be kept by the agent of all bodies received and distributed for the period of time authorized by the Records Disposition Schedule.  The name of the oversight Board shall be the State Anatomical Board, hereinafter called the Anatomical Board.  The Anatomical Board may, in its discretion, exempt any county, district, or institution from the provisions of this act in any calendar year for any length of time.

Passed the House of Representatives the 28th day of February, 2012.

	
Presiding Officer of the House of
	Representatives

Passed the Senate the 10th day of April, 2012.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate