STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

SENATE BILL 69	By:	Bass

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to consent to treatment of a minor; permitting certain health care practitioners to treat a child without consent in cases of suspected abuse or neglect; 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 1-3-104 of Title 10A, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A physician, dentist, psychologist, registered nurse, surgeon, intern, physician assistant, or any other health professional authorized to examine a child, having reasonable grounds to believe that the child’s physical or mental condition has been adversely affected by abuse or neglect, whether mental, physical, or sexual, may examine the child without the consent of the child’s parents or other person authorized to consent to treatment.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

53-1-166	JM	1/23/2004 2:00:42 AM