2021 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-515.1. Physicians attending upon pregnant females – Blood sample.
A. Every physician or any other person permitted by law to attend upon pregnant females in this state, at the time of delivery and only if the pregnant female has had no prenatal care, shall:
1. Take, or cause to be taken under the order of a physician licensed to practice in this state, a sample of blood from the pregnant female; and
2. Submit the sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for the human immunodeficiency virus.
B. The term "approved laboratory" shall mean a laboratory approved for the purposes of this section by the State Commissioner of Health. A standard serological test for the human immunodeficiency virus shall be one recognized as such by the Commissioner. Such laboratory tests shall be made, on request, without charge by the State Department of Health.
Added by Laws 2011, c. 88, § 2, emerg. eff. April 20, 2011.
