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1                    STATE OF OKLAHOMA

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

3 HOUSE BILL 2915               By: Pittman

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6                    AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to public health and safety; amending

    63 O.S. 2021, Section 1-242.4, as amended by Section

8   1, Chapter 263, O.S.L. 2024 (63 O.S. Supp. 2024,

    Section 1-242.4), which relates to Maternal Mortality

9   Review Committee, membership, and election;

    authorizing the Maternal Mortality Review Committee

10  to create advisory committees; and providing an

    effective date.

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

14  SECTION 1.      AMENDATORY  63 O.S. 2021, Section 1-242.4, as

15 amended by Section 1, Chapter 263, O.S.L. 2024 (63 O.S. Supp. 2024,

16 Section 1-242.4), is amended to read as follows:

17  Section 1-242.4. A. The Maternal Mortality Review Committee

18 shall be composed of eleven (11) members, or their designees, as

19 follows:

20  1. Eight of the members shall be:

21           a. the Chair of the Oklahoma Chapter of the American

22              College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,

23           b. the President of the Oklahoma Chapter of the American

24              College of Nurse-Midwives,

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1   c. the Medical Director for the Oklahoma Perinatal

2   Quality Improvement Collaborative,

3   d. the Director of the Maternal and Child Health Service

4   of the State Department of Health,

5   e. the Chair of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Association

6   of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses,

7   f. the Executive Director of the Southern Plains Tribal

8   Health Board,

9   g. the Director of the Oklahoma Perinatal Quality

10  Improvement Collaborative, and

11  h. the administrative program manager of the Maternal and

12  Child Health Service Perinatal and Reproductive Health

13  Division; and

14  2. Three of the members shall be appointed by the State

15 Commissioner of Health to serve for two-year terms and shall be

16 eligible for reappointment. The members shall be persons having

17 training and experience in matters related to maternal mortality and

18 severe maternal morbidity. The members shall be appointed from the

19 following positions:

20  a. a physician who is a member of the Oklahoma State

21  Medical Association or the Oklahoma Osteopathic

22  Association,

23  b. a maternal-fetal medicine physician, and

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1   c. an individual who has been affected by pregnancy-

2   related or pregnancy-associated deaths, severe

3   maternal morbidity, and/or lack of access to maternal

4   health care services.

5   B. Every two (2) years the Committee shall elect from among its

6 membership a chair and a vice chair. The Committee shall meet at

7 least quarterly and may meet more frequently as necessary as

8 determined by the chair.

9   C. The Maternal Mortality Review Committee may, as needed,

10 create advisory committees and assign members or non-members of the

11 Committee to participate.

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

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