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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1508 By: Hicks
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to end-of-life care; creating the
Compassionate Access to Medical Marijuana Act;
proving short title; defining terms; requiring health
care facilities to permit medical marijuana use by
certain patients; imposing certain duties on health
care facilities; providing certain exception;
requiring certain compliance with medication
requirements; providing certain construction;
granting certain licensure protection; authorizing
health care facilities to suspend certain compliance
under specified conditions; 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 3093 of Title 63, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the
“Compassionate Access to Medical Marijuana Act”.
B. As used in this section:
1. “Health care facility” means a facility licensed by the
State Department of Health, but shall not include a hospital that is
owned or operated by the state or a state agency, the federal
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government, a federally recognized Indian tribe, or the Indian
Health Service;
2. “Medical marijuana” means medical marijuana or medical
marijuana products used in compliance with Section 420 et seq. of
Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
3. “Terminally ill” means a medical condition resulting in a
prognosis of life of one (1) year or less, if the disease follows
its natural course.
C. A health care facility shall permit the use of medical
marijuana by a patient who is terminally ill and who is a licensed
patient as defined in Section 427.2 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma
Statutes and shall do all of the following:
1. Prohibit smoking or vaping as methods to use medical
marijuana;
2. Include the use of medical marijuana within the patient’s
medical records;
3. Require the patient to provide a copy of the patient’s valid
medical marijuana patient license issued by the Oklahoma Medical
Marijuana Authority;
4. Reasonably restrict the manner in which a patient stores and
uses medical marijuana, including requiring the medical marijuana to
be stored in a locked container, to ensure the safety of other
patients, guests, and employees of the health care facility,
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compliance with other state laws, and the safe operations of the
health care facility; and
5. Develop and disseminate written guidelines for the use of
medical marijuana within the health care facility pursuant to this
section.
D. This section does not apply to a patient receiving emergency
services and care or to the emergency department of a health care
facility while the patient is receiving emergency services and care.
E. Notwithstanding the classification of medical marijuana as a
Schedule I drug and any other law, a health care facility shall
comply with drug and medication requirements applicable to Schedule
II, III, and IV drugs and shall be subject to enforcement actions by
the State Department of Health.
F. Nothing in this section shall be construed to:
1. Require a health care facility to provide a patient with a
recommendation to use medical marijuana under Section 420 et seq. of
Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes or include medical marijuana in a
patient’s discharge plan; or
2. Reduce, expand, or otherwise modify the laws governing the
cultivation, possession, sale, or use of marijuana that may be
otherwise applicable, including, but not limited to, Section 420 et
seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
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G. Compliance with this section shall not be a condition for
obtaining, retaining, or renewing a license as a health care
facility.
H. If a federal agency takes one of the following actions, a
health care facility may suspend compliance with this section until
the federal agency notifies the health care facility that it may
resume permitting the use of medical marijuana within the facility:
1. A federal agency initiates an enforcement action against a
health care facility related to the facility’s compliance with this
section; and
2. A federal agency issues a rule or otherwise provides
notification to the health care facility that expressly prohibits
the use of medical marijuana in health care facilities or otherwise
prohibits compliance with this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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