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HB3791 • 2026
Health care; health care providers; alternative treatment; repercussions; parents or legal guardians; effective date.
Health care; health care providers; alternative treatment; repercussions; parents or legal guardians; effective date.
Children
Parental Rights
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- Sponsor
- Sneed
- Last action
- 2026-04-01
- Official status
- Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services
- Effective date
- Not listed
Plain English Breakdown
Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.
Health care; health care providers; alternative treatment; repercussions; parents or legal guardians; effective date.
Health care; health care providers; alternative treatment; repercussions; parents or legal guardians; effective date.
What This Bill Does
- Health care; health care providers; alternative treatment; repercussions; parents or legal guardians; effective date.
- Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 3791 (House): Introduced (2/18/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 3791 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (3/4/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 3791 (House): Committee Substitute (3/10/2026)
Limits and Unknowns
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Amendments
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Plain English: HB3791 FULLPCS1 Chris Sneed-TJ
3/3/2026 3:42:12 pm
AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS
Amendment submitted by: Chris Sneed
Adopted: _____________________________
______________________________________
Reading Clerk
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
State of Oklahoma
SPEAKER:
CHAIR:
I move to amend HB3791
Of the printed Bill
Page Section Lines
Of the Engrossed Bill
By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu
thereof the following language:
Req.
- HB3791 FULLPCS1 Chris Sneed-TJ
3/3/2026 3:42:12 pm
AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS
Amendment submitted by: Chris Sneed
Adopted: _____________________________
______________________________________
Reading Clerk
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
State of Oklahoma
SPEAKER:
CHAIR:
I move to amend HB3791
Of the printed Bill
Page Section Lines
Of the Engrossed Bill
By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu
thereof the following language:
Req.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
PROPOSED OVERSIGHT
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO.
- 3791 By: Sneed
PROPOSED OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to health care; allowing health care
providers to prescribe alternative treatment;
prohibiting repercussions; allowing parents or legal
guardians to provide alternative treatments to their
child; prohibiting legal repercussions; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.
Bill History
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2026-04-01
Senate
Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services
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2026-03-25
House
Engrossed, signed, to Senate
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2026-03-25
Senate
First Reading
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2026-03-24
House
General Order
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2026-03-24
House
Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 14
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2026-03-24
House
Referred for engrossment
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2026-03-09
House
CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Committee
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2026-03-09
House
Authored by Senator Grellner (principal Senate author)
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2026-02-19
House
Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Civil Judiciary
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2026-02-03
House
Second Reading referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight
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2026-02-03
House
Referred to Civil Judiciary
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2026-02-02
House
First Reading
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2026-02-02
House
Authored by Representative Sneed
Official Summary Text
Health care; health care providers; alternative treatment; repercussions; parents or legal guardians; effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 3791 (House): Introduced (2/18/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 3791 (House): Proposed Committee Substitute (full committee) 1 (3/4/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 3791 (House): Committee Substitute (3/10/2026)
Current Bill Text
Read the full stored bill text
ENGR. H. B. NO. 3791 Page 1
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ENGROSSED HOUSE
BILL NO. 3791 By: Sneed of the House
and
Grellner of the Senate
An Act relating to health care; allowing health care
providers to prescribe alternative treatment;
prohibiting repercussions; allowing parents or legal
guardians to provide alternative treatments to their
child; prohibiting legal repercussions; 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 7500 of Title 63, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A physician, including allopathic and osteopathic, advanced
practice nurse practitioner, and physicians assistant shall have the
right to prescribe, recommend, or suggest holistic or natural
medicine or alternative treatment to patients under his or her care
if the health care provider believes the treatment will be effective
or beneficial to his or her patient to relieve pain or help cure the
patient's ailment.
B. A parent or legal guardian shall have the right to treat his
or her child with holistic or natural medicine or an alternative
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treatment to what the health care provider suggests or recommends.
It shall be the parent or legal guardian's right to deviate from a
suggestion or recommendation from a health care provider if the
parent or legal guardian believes that is in the best interest of
the child.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
Passed the House of Representatives the 24th day of March, 2026.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the ___ day of __________, 2026.
Presiding Officer of the Senate