STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 52nd Legislature (2009)

SENATE BILL 323	By:	Adelson

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to public health; providing legislative findings; creating the Oklahoma Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Act; providing short title; directing the State Department of Health to create a COPD state plan; providing for noncodification; 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 not to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
The Legislature finds that:
1.  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States;
2.  It is estimated that 12 million Americans have COPD and another 12 million Americans are undiagnosed with the disease;
3.  COPD causes the death of 120,000 Americans each year and costs the nation over Forty-two Billion Dollars ($42,000,000,000.00) in avoidable health care costs;
4.  In Oklahoma, the incidence of COPD is twenty-five percent (25%) higher than that national average and a leading contributor to Oklahoma’s poor health status relative to the rest of the nation;
5.  COPD contributes several hundred million dollars a year in health care costs in Oklahoma; and
6.  COPD is preventable and treatable.
SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-450 of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Act”.
B.  The State Department of Health shall create a comprehensive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) state plan that outlines sustainable solutions for reducing the burden of COPD in Oklahoma through the coordinated implementation of multiple strategies.  These strategies shall include, without limitation, recommendations for:
1.  The prevention and early detection of COPD to reduce the incidence of disease;
2.  The treatment and management of COPD to ensure that health care providers offer state of the art care, including increased access to non-pharmacologic therapies for COPD;
3.  Increasing public awareness, patient education and proper medical management of COPD among the general public and those living with COPD; and
4.  Improving COPD outcomes in Oklahoma through increases in COPD funding and resources as well as ongoing effective advocacy by government leaders and people with COPD.
SECTION 3.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2009.

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