ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2976	By:	Schwartz and Pittman of the House

				and

		Griffin of the Senate

An Act relating to public health and safety; requiring hospitals to provide parents of newborn infants certain educational information; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT:  Educational information for parents of newborns

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 1-550.6 of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  During the postpartum period and prior to discharge, each hospital, as defined in Section 1-701 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall provide parents of newborn infants educational information on pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine to protect against pertussis.  This educational information shall include, but need not be limited to, information on the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that parents receive a tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine during the postpartum period to protect their newborns from the transmission of pertussis.

B. Nothing in subsection A of this section shall be construed to require any hospital to provide or pay for any vaccinations against pertussis.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2014.

Passed the House of Representatives the 3rd day of March, 2014.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives

Passed the Senate the 22nd day of April, 2014.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
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By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________ day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.

	_________________________________
	Governor of the State of Oklahoma

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