All Roll Calls
Yes: 149 • No: 10
OklahomaSB 391Oklahoma 2026 Regular SessionSenate
Opioid overdose fatalities; dissolving Overdose Fatality Review Board; providing for Attorney General oversight. Effective date. Emergency.
Sponsored By: Micheal Bergstrom (Republican)
Became Law
Senate Committee
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Legal remedies for harmful review privacy breaches
The law preserves confidentiality rules for overdose review information under state and federal law. Materials and discussions created for corrective steps after individual reviews are protected and cannot be used in civil or criminal cases. If an unlawful disclosure by the Attorney General, an office employee, or a contractor harms you, you can sue. You can seek damages, court costs, and lawyer fees under the Governmental Tort Claims Act. The law sets no damages amount, and you must have been harmed by a disclosure not authorized by law.
Oklahoma attorney general leads overdose death reviews
The law ends Oklahoma’s opioid overdose review board and moves its duties to the Attorney General. The office reviews deaths involving legal or illegal opioids among people age 18 or older. It maintains overdose data, coordinates state and local efforts, and recommends changes to prevent deaths. It can assign work to staff and join child overdose reviews with the Child Death Review Board. Record holders must provide requested health, emergency response, school, court, law enforcement, and social service records unless law bars release. A monthly death-certificate sharing rule, dating to November 1, 2018, continues for overdose deaths among people over 18. The Chief Medical Examiner screens those certificates using the Attorney General’s criteria and refers qualifying cases for review. The Attorney General provides periodic guidance to state leaders; annual statistics and a public activity summary are due February 1. The law provides no new funding or direct household payments. It lists July 1, 2025, as its effective date and also includes an emergency clause making it effective upon passage.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Micheal Bergstrom
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Gerrid Kendrix
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/6/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 92 • No: 0
House vote • 4/8/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 13 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/17/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 37 • No: 8
Senate vote • 2/13/2025
Committee vote: Administrative Rules
Yes: 7 • No: 2
Bill Text
Enrolled (final version)
5/7/2025
Floor (House)
4/8/2025
House Committee Report
4/8/2025
Engrossed
3/18/2025
Committee Substitute
2/17/2025
Floor (Senate)
2/17/2025
Senate Committee Report
2/13/2025
Introduced
1/6/2025
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