Oklahoma HB1687: Advance health care directives; creating the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act of 2026; establishing requirements for certain health care directives; effective date.

What the bill says

An Act relating to advance health care directives; creating the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act of 2026; providing short title; defining terms; establishing requirements to show capacity; providing for presumption of capacity under certain circumstances; providing for rebuttal of certain presumption; requiring certain notice; establishing procedures to object to certain finding; authorizing judicial review of certain finding; authorizing creation of health care instruction; establishing requirements for health care instruction…

From the enrolled text, May 6, 2026:

An Act relating to advance health care directives; creating the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act of 2026; providing short title; defining terms; establishing requirements to show capacity; providing for presumption of capacity under certain circumstances; providing for rebuttal of certain presumption; requiring certain notice; establishing procedures to object to certain finding; authorizing judicial review of certain finding; authorizing creation of health care instruction; establishing requirements for health care instruction; establishing requirements for creation of power of attorney for health care; authorizing creation of advance mental health care directive; establishing requirements for advance mental health care directive; establishing requirements for conflicting health care directives; providing optional form for advance health care directive; authorizing default surrogate who is a member of certain classes; establishing requirements for default surrogate; establishing procedures for disagreement of default surrogates; providing for disqualification of certain persons for acting as default surrogate; authorizing revocation of certain appointment, designation, or instruction; establishing requirements for validity of directives created out of state; directing resolution of conflicts of law; establishing duties of agent or default surrogate; providing for commencement and ceasing of powers of agent or default surrogate; prohibiting certain actions by agent or default surrogate; authorizing appointment of coagents and alternate agents; prohibiting authorization of certain persons to serve as agent or default surrogate; establishing certain duties for health care …