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SB1227 • 2026

Mental health; authorizing mobile crisis teams to request certain information from law enforcement. Effective date.

Mental health; authorizing mobile crisis teams to request certain information from law enforcement. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Bullard
Last action
2026-02-03
Official status
Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services
Effective date
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Mental health; authorizing mobile crisis teams to request certain information from law enforcement. Effective date.

Mental health; authorizing mobile crisis teams to request certain information from law enforcement.

What This Bill Does

  • Mental health; authorizing mobile crisis teams to request certain information from law enforcement.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1227 (Senate): Introduced (12/10/2025)

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-03 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services

  2. 2026-02-02 Senate

    First Reading

  3. 2026-02-02 Senate

    Authored by Senator Bullard

Official Summary Text

Mental health; authorizing mobile crisis teams to request certain information from law enforcement. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1227 (Senate): Introduced (12/10/2025)

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)

SENATE BILL 1227 By: Bullard

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to mental health; defining terms;
authorizing certain request of certain information;
requiring development of certain protocol; limiting
disclosure of certain information; construing
provisions; providing immunity from liability for
certain disclosures; 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 1-111 of Title 43A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. “Mobile crisis team” means a group of professionals that
includes a licensed mental health professional and a certified peer
recovery support specialist or case manager and that is employed or
contracted by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services or a political subdivision of this state to provide
community-based crisis intervention services outside of facilities

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to individuals experiencing alcohol-related, drug-related, or mental
health crises;
2. “Request for assistance” means a call, dispatch, referral,
or other notification requesting a response from a mobile crisis
team to an individual experiencing a mental health, substance use,
or suicidal crisis; and
3. “Safety-related information” means any information
documented in a law enforcement agency’s computer-aided dispatch
system or record management system related to an individual or
address that is relevant to the physical safety of responders at a
scene including, but not limited to:
a. history of violent behavior, threats, or aggression,
b. possession of weapons or firearms,
c. prior incidents related to violent or threatening
behavior or mental health crises that required law
enforcement intervention,
d. outstanding warrants, and
e. any other relevant information that a person could
reasonably assume would indicate a risk to a mobile
crisis team.
B. 1. When a mobile crisis team receives a request for
assistance, the mobile crisis team may request any safety-related
information from a municipal or county law enforcement agency before
responding to a request for assistance.

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2. Municipal and county law enforcement agencies in this state
shall develop a protocol to ensure timely access to and delivery of
safety-related information to a mobile crisis team that pertains to
the address or individual requiring a response from the mobile
crisis team.
C. 1. Any safety-related information disclosed pursuant to
this section shall be limited to what is deemed reasonably necessary
to ensure the safety of the mobile crisis team and shall remain
confidential except as otherwise required by law.
2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the
disclosure of sealed or expunged records or the collection or
retention of information not already within the possession of a law
enforcement agency.
D. An employee of a law enforcement agency who discloses
safety-related information in accordance with protocols developed by
the agency pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be
immune from liability arising from such disclosure.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

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