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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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3 SENATE BILL 176 By: Dossett
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to health benefit plans; defining
7 terms; requiring coverage for certain prescription;
8 construing provisions; providing for codification;
8 and providing an effective date.
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11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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12 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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13 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6060.3b of Title 36, unless
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14 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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15 A. As used in this section:
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16 1. "Contraceptive drugs" means all drugs approved by the United
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17 States Food and Drug Administration that are used to prevent
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18 pregnancy including but not limited to hormonal drugs administered
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19 orally, transdermally, and intravaginally; and
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20 2. "Health benefit plan" means a health benefit plan as defined
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21 pursuant to Section 6060.4 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
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22 B. Any health benefit plan that is offered, issued, or renewed
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23 on or after the effective date of this act that offers coverage for
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1 contraceptive drugs shall provide coverage for an enrollee to
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2 obtain:
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3 1. A three-month supply of a contraceptive drug at once the
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4 first time the enrollee obtains the drug; and
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5 2. A twelve-month supply of the contraceptive drug at once each
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6 subsequent time that the enrollee obtains the same drug, regardless
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7 of whether the enrollee was enrolled in the health benefit plan the
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8 first time that the enrollee obtained the drug.
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9 An enrollee may obtain only one twelve-month supply of a covered
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10 prescription drug during each twelve-month period.
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11 C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an
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12 enrollee of a health benefit plan from requesting a smaller supply
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13 or to prohibit a prescribing provider from prescribing a smaller
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14 supply if such a prescription is supported by clinical utility and
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15 medical appropriateness.
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16 D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require
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17 coverage under a health benefit plan for any medications that could
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18 be used to terminate an existing pregnancy.
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19 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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