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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 668 By: Kern
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to health care; defining terms;
7 prohibiting health care staffing agency from charging
8 fee in excess of certain amount; authorizing certain
8 civil actions; making health care staffing agency
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9 conditions; authorizing certain relief; providing for
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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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14 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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15 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-714.1 of Title 63, unless
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16 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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17 A. As used in this section:
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18 1. "Covered facility" means:
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19 a. a hospital licensed under Section 1-702 of Title 63 of
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20 the Oklahoma Statutes, or
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21 b. a nursing facility or specialized facility licensed
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22 under the Nursing Home Care Act, Section 1-1901 et
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23 seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
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1 2. "Health care staffing agency" means a company that provides
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2 temporary nursing services for covered facilities needing to fill
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3 vacant shifts in exchange for a fee; and
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4 3. "Health care worker" means a nurse, nurse aide, or any other
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5 direct care clinical staff member that is employed by a health care
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6 staffing agency and that provides nursing services to a patient or
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7 resident of a covered facility.
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8 B. If a health care staffing agency places a health care worker
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9 in a covered facility who was previously employed by the covered
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10 facility for any period of time within the preceding two (2) years,
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11 the fee charged by the health care staffing agency for that health
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12 care worker shall not, when converted to an hourly wage, exceed one
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13 hundred five percent (105%) of the highest hourly wage paid to the
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14 health care worker by the covered facility when the worker was
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16 C. 1. A covered facility may bring an action against a health
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17 care staffing agency alleging a violation of subsection B of this
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18 section. A health care staffing agency found in violation of
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19 subsection B of this section shall be liable if:
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20 a. the covered facility, prior to bringing the action,
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21 notified the health care staffing agency of a fee in
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22 excess of the limit imposed by subsection B of this
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23 section and provided accurate and detailed records of
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1 the employee's pay to the health care staffing agency
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3 b. the health care staffing agency failed to promptly
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5 2. The court may award actual damages, punitive damages, court
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6 costs, reasonable attorney fees, injunctive relief, and any other
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7 appropriate relief to a prevailing plaintiff.
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8 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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