STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

SENATE BILL 457	By:	David

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to public health and safety; allowing first responders to administer certain medicine without prescription; providing definitions; extending provisions of the Good Samaritan Act to first responders; 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 to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-2506.1 of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  First responders shall have the authority to administer, without prescription, opioid antagonists when encountering an individual exhibiting signs of an opiate overdose.  For the purposes of this provision, a first responder shall include:
1.  Law enforcement officials;
2.  Emergency Medical Technicians;
3.  Firefighters;
4.  Medical personnel at secondary schools and institutions of higher education.
B.  Any first responder administering an opiate antagonist in a manner consistent with addressing opiate overdose shall be covered under the Good Samaritan Act.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

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