Bill Text For SB0217 - Introduced

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 2|             1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)                |
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 3|SENATE BILL 217                      By: Hamilton                      |
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 6|                            AS INTRODUCED                              |
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 7|       An Act relating to health care; requiring licensed              |
  |       practitioners to offer pharmacogenomic test prior to            |
 8|       prescription of psychotropic drugs; requiring certain           |
  |       disclosures and obtainment of informed consent;                 |
 9|       directing order and administration of pharmacogenomic           |
  |       test; providing for codification; and providing an              |
10|       effective date.                                                 |
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13|BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:                  |
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14|    SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified     |
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15|in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 7201 of Title 63, unless there     |
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16|is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:               |
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17|    A.  A licensed practitioner shall, prior to the prescription of    |
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18|any psychotropic drug to a patient, offer to administer a              |
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19|pharmacogenomic test to the patient for the purpose of guiding the     |
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20|decisions of the licensed practitioner with respect to how the         |
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21|patient's genes may react to certain medications.                      |
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22|    B.  The licensed practitioner shall, to the best of the licensed   |
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23|practitioner's knowledge, inform the patient of the efficacy of        |
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24|pharmacogenomic testing.  The licensed practitioner shall inform the   |
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 1|patient of whether or not the pharmacogenomic test to be               |
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 2|administered is approved by the Food and Drug Administration.  The     |
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 3|licensed practitioner shall obtain the patient's informed consent      |
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 4|prior to ordering a pharmacogenomic test.  If the practitioner is      |
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 5|aware of the cost of the pharmacogenomic test, the practitioner        |
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 6|shall provide an estimate to the patient of such cost.                 |
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 7|    C.  If a patient provides informed consent to receive a            |
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 8|pharmacogenomic test, the licensed practitioner shall order the        |
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 9|pharmacogenomic test and administer such test to the patient prior     |
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10|to the prescription of any psychotropic medication.                    |
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11|    SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.      |
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13|    59-1-1358      DC        1/9/2023 7:08:53 PM                       |
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