Medicaid; Oklahoma Health Care Authority; immigration status attestation; application; illegal aliens; federal authority; effective date.

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)

HOUSE BILL 2969 By: Hays

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to Medicaid; mandating the Oklahoma
Health Care Authority to include an immigration
status attestation on every application; requiring
the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to refer illegal
aliens to the appropriate federal authority;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 4030 of Title 56, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall include an
immigration status attestation on every application when hospitals
or other health care providers are making presumptive eligibility
determinations for providing Medicaid or SoonerCare. The
attestation shall be a self-certification under penalty of perjury,
subject to post-enrollment verification. No hospital or health care

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provider shall be subject to civil or administrative liability for
good-faith reliance on an applicant's attestation.
B. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall, where required by
federal law, provide information to appropriate federal authority
all illegal aliens applying for Medicaid or SoonerCare.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

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