An act relating to hospital license, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 2295            By: Hilbert

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to hospital license; prohibiting the

    transfer of hospital licenses from one address to

8   another; providing administrative requirements;

    providing for mediation; providing for codification;

9   and providing an effective date.

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12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

13  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

14 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-702.1 of Title 63, unless

15 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

16  No hospital license shall be transferred from its current

17 address to an address greater than fifteen (15) miles away, if the

18 hospital license is located in a community with a population of

19 fewer than thirty thousand (30,000) residents, according to the

20 latest Federal Decennial Census. If a hospital facility announces a

21 closure, before the closure of the facility, a mediator shall be

22 appointed. The city in which the hospital is located shall also

23 appoint a mediator if the hospital is within city limits, if not,

24 then the county shall appoint a mediator. The two mediators shall

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1 appoint a mutually agreed-upon third mediator. The three mediators

2 shall agree upon a sales price for the hospital license, if the

3 hospital and the municipality cannot agree without mediation. The

4 hospital license shall be purchased and transferred to the city or

5 county if the city or county is willing to pay the agreed-upon

6 purchase price set forth by the mediators.

7   SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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9   60-1-11634      TJ  01/07/25

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