Text of OK SB 250 (2023)
Public programs; prohibiting public funding for provider of gender transition procedures; allowing reapplication under certain conditions. Emergency.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 250
By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public programs; defining terms;
prohibiting public funding for provider of gender
transition procedures; allowing ineligible provider
to reapply for funding under certain conditions;
requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to publish
certain findings; providing certain construction;
providing for codification; 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 1005.11 of Title 56, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. For purposes of this section:
1. “Provider” means a provider of services for compensation;
2. “Affiliate” means an entity which licenses the use of a
trademark or other recognized name to the provider, and which
exercises control over the use of part or all of the provider’s
name, or any entity so licensed or controlled; and
3. a.
“Gender transition procedures” means any medical or
surgical service, including but not limited to
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physician’s services, inpatient and outpatient
hospital services, or prescribed drugs related to
gender transition that seeks to:
(1) alter or remove physical or anatomical
characteristics or features that are typical for
the individual’s biological sex, or
(2) instill or create physiological or anatomical
characteristics that resemble a sex different
from the individual’s biological sex, including
but not limited to medical services that provide
puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or
other mechanisms to promote the development of
feminizing or masculinizing features in the
opposite biological sex, or genital or nongenital
gender reassignment surgery performed for the
purpose of assisting an individual with a gender
transition.
b.
Gender transition procedures do not include:
(1) services to persons born with a medically
verifiable disorder of sex development, including
a person with external biological sex
characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous,
such as those born with 46 XX chromosomes with
virilization, 46 XY chromosomes with
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undervirilization, or having both ovarian and
testicular tissue,
(2) services provided when a physician has otherwise
diagnosed a disorder of sexual development that
the physician has determined through genetic or
biochemical testing that the person does not have
normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid
hormone production, or sex steroid hormone
action,
(3) the treatment of any infection, injury, disease,
or disorder that has been caused by or
exacerbated by the performance of gender
transition procedures, whether or not the gender
transition procedure was performed in accordance
with state and federal law, or
(4) any procedure undertaken because the individual
suffers from a physical disorder, physical
injury, or physical illness that would, as
certified by a physician, place the individual in
imminent danger of death or impairment of major
bodily function unless surgery is performed.
B. No provider shall be eligible for reimbursement through
Medicaid or any other federal or state program or any other funding
from any political subdivision of this state including but not
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limited to cities, towns, municipalities, or counties, directly or
by subcontract with any other party, if that provider, or any
affiliate of that provider, performs gender transition procedures.
C. Any providers found to be ineligible for reimbursement or
other funding pursuant to this section shall be able to reapply
after a period of five (5) years and a showing that they and their
affiliates no longer participate in gender transition procedures.
D. Within sixty (60) calendar days of receipt of a complaint of
a violation under this section, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority
shall publish the findings of its investigation of the complaint and
issue a determination of whether a provider has committed a
violation of the provisions of this section. Nothing in this
section shall preclude other law enforcement entities or a party in
qui tam litigation from initiating action regarding this section.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or 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.
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