{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-745.6","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-745.6","heading":"Abortion – Report to State Department of Health –","body":"Public statistical report – Late fee.\n\nA. Any physician who performs or induces or attempts to perform\n\nor induce an abortion shall report to the State Department of\n\nHealth, on a schedule and in accordance with forms and rules and\n\nregulations adopted and promulgated by the State Board of Health\n\nthat include:\n\n1. If a determination of probable postfertilization age was\n\nmade, the probable postfertilization age determined and the method\n\nand basis of the determination;\n\n2. If a determination of probable postfertilization age was not\n\nmade, the basis of the determination that a medical emergency\n\nexisted;\n\n3. If the probable postfertilization age was determined to be\n\ntwenty (20) or more weeks, the basis of the determination that the\n\npregnant woman had a condition which so complicated her medical\n\ncondition as to necessitate the abortion of her pregnancy to avert\n\nher death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible\n\nphysical impairment of a major bodily function, not including\n\npsychological or emotional conditions; and\n\n4. The method used for the abortion and, in the case of an\n\nabortion performed when the probable postfertilization age was\n\ndetermined to be twenty (20) or more weeks:\n\na. whether the method used was one that, in reasonable\n\nmedical judgment, provided the best opportunity for\n\nthe unborn child to survive, or\n\nb. if such a method was not used, the basis of the\n\ndetermination that termination of the pregnancy in\n\nthat manner would pose a greater risk either of the\n\ndeath of the pregnant woman or of the substantial and\n\nirreversible physical impairment of a major bodily\n\nfunction, not including psychological or emotional\n\nconditions, of the woman than would other available\n\nmethods.\n\nB. By June 30 of each year, the State Department of Health\n\nshall issue a public report providing statistics for the previous\n\ncalendar year compiled from all of the reports covering that year\n\nsubmitted in accordance with this section for each of the items\n\nlisted in subsection A of this section. Each such report shall also\n\nprovide the statistics for all previous calendar years during which\n\nthis section was in effect, adjusted to reflect any additional\n\ninformation from late or corrected reports. The State Department of\n\nHealth shall take care to ensure that none of the information\n\nincluded in the public reports could reasonably lead to the\n\nidentification of any pregnant woman upon whom an abortion was\n\nperformed or attempted.\n\nC. Any physician who fails to submit a report by the end of\n\nthirty (30) days following the due date shall be subject to a late\n\nfee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each additional thirty-day\n\nperiod or portion of a thirty-day period the report is overdue. Any\n\nphysician required to report in accordance with this act who has not\n\nsubmitted a report, or has submitted only an incomplete report, more\n\nthan one (1) year following the due date, may, in an action brought\n\nby the State Department of Health or by the State Board of Medical\n\nLicensure and Supervision, be directed by a court of competent\n\njurisdiction to submit a complete report within a period stated by\n\ncourt order or be subject to civil contempt. Knowing or reckless\n\nfailure by any physician to conform to any requirement of this\n\nsection, other than late filing of a report, constitutes\n\n\"unprofessional conduct\" pursuant to Section 509 of Title 59 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes. Knowing or reckless failure by any physician to\n\nsubmit a complete report in accordance with a court order\n\nconstitutes \"unprofessional conduct\" pursuant to Section 509 of\n\nTitle 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Knowing or reckless\n\nfalsification of any report required under this section is a\n\nmisdemeanor.\n\nD. By February 1, 2012, the State Board of Health shall adopt\n\nand promulgate rules and regulations to assist in compliance with\ny physician to\n\nsubmit a complete report in accordance with a court order\n\nconstitutes \"unprofessional conduct\" pursuant to Section 509 of\n\nTitle 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Knowing or reckless\n\nfalsification of any report required under this section is a\n\nmisdemeanor.\n\nD. By February 1, 2012, the State Board of Health shall adopt\n\nand promulgate rules and regulations to assist in compliance with\n\nthis section. Subsection A of this section shall take effect so as\n\nto require reports regarding all abortions performed or induced on\n\nand after the first day of the first calendar month following the\n\neffective date of such rules.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"16fababe99e76f938afb000903e7834753ae96831ef3d8f0b528e3f1824dffdb","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-745.59","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-745.60"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}