Oklahoma SB424: Community health workers; creating the Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act; providing for voluntary certification. Effective date.

What the bill says

An Act relating to community health workers; creating the Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act; providing short title; defining terms; directing establishment of certificate; making certification voluntary; listing functions of community health worker; requiring and prohibiting certain acts by community health worker; providing eligibility criteria; directing promulgation of certain rules; providing for codification; and providing an effective date. SUBJECT: Community health workers.

From the enrolled text, May 5, 2025:

An Act relating to community health workers; creating the Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act; providing short title; defining terms; directing establishment of certificate; making certification voluntary; listing functions of community health worker; requiring and prohibiting certain acts by community health worker; providing eligibility criteria; directing promulgation of certain rules; providing for codification; and providing an effective date. SUBJECT: Community health workers SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2063a of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act". SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2063b of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: As used in the Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act: 1. "Certified community health worker" means a community health worker to whom the State Department of Health has issued a certificate to practice as a certified community health worker in this state; 2. "Community health worker" means a frontline health worker who has a shared understanding of and is a trusted member of the community being served; and 3. "Department" means the State Department of Health. SECTION 3. …

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Sponsors

• (R, HD-038)