STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

SENATE BILL 178	By:	Crain

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to standards of care in extreme emergencies; authorizing the State Board of Health to adopt certain rules and requirements; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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 4-1-107 of Title 27A, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The State Board of Health is authorized to adopt such rules and requirements as it deems necessary to establish adaptive standards of care where an extreme emergency exists as defined in the Oklahoma Emergency Response Act.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2011.
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.

53-1-532	JM	1/10/2011 3:04:30 PM