2021 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-3163. Disclosure statement for patients and patients' families.

A. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall prepare, and from time to time amend, a disclosure statement designed to inform patients and patients' families of their rights under the specified sections of the Hydration and Nutrition for Incompetent Patients Act (Sections 3080.2 through 3080.5 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes), the Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act (Sections 3090.2 and 3090.3 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes), the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act (Section 3101.9 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes) and the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act (Section 3131.4 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes). The disclosure statement shall include contact information for officials to whom alleged violations of those provisions may be reported. The State Department of Health shall make the current disclosure statement available on the Department's website and shall inform the entities specified in subsection B of this section of the availability of the disclosure statement and how to obtain the disclosure statement.

B. Any entity to which the requirements of the federal Patient Self-Determination Act under 42 U.S.C., Section 1395cc(f) or 42 U.S.C., Section 1396a(w) apply shall, at the time of providing the written information required by 42 U.S.C., Section 1395cc(f)(1)(A)(i) or 42 U.S.C., Section 1396a(w)(1)(A)(i), include a copy of the disclosure statement described in subsection A of this section.

C. The provisions of subsection B of this section shall be effective thirty (30) days after the date on which the State Department of Health publishes the initial disclosure statement required by this section.

Added by Laws 2014, c. 82, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.