ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 1905	By:		Sykes and Newberry of the Senate

			and

		Grau and Ritze of the House

An Act relating to medical liability actions; prohibiting admissibility of certain action; prohibiting use of certain action for certain determination or presumption; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT:  Medical liability actions

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 1-1712 of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A health care provider's failure to comply with or a health care provider's breach of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) consolidating the amendment made by Title X of the Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152) and any regulation, program, guideline or other provision established by such, shall not be admissible, used to determine the standard of care, or the legal basis for a presumption of negligence in any medical liability action in this state.

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

Passed the Senate the 20th day of May, 2014.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 21st day of May, 2014.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________ day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
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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