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House Passes Bill To Give Governor Power Over Tulsa And Oklahoma City-County Health Departments


Credit Tulsa Health Department
The Oklahoma House narrowly and on a largely urban-rural split passed a bill this week to give the governor power over the Tulsa and Oklahoma city-county health departments.
House Bill 2504 inserts the state health commissioner, who is appointed by the governor, into the process of picking new directors for the state’s two independent health departments. The measure also requires local directors to align priorities with the health commissioner’s, lets the health commissioner ask for a local director’s removal and bans the local health departments from implementing regulations more stringent than the state’s. ....

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Bill seen as threat to independence of health departments


Bill seen as threat to independence of health departments
By: Paul Monies
Oklahoma Watch
March 10, 2021
ICU nurse Erica Arrocha talks with Gov. Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma State Commissioner of Health Dr. Lance Frye before administering the state’s first COVID-19 vaccine at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City on Dec. 14, 2020. (Photo by Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch)
Local board members in Oklahoma and Tulsa counties are casting a skeptical eye at a House bill that would give the state health commissioner a voice on their local governing boards and veto authority over any future picks for executive directors.
House Bill 2504, by state Rep. Chris Kannady, R-Oklahoma City, would give the state’s health commissioner one appointment on the nine-member governing boards of the independently run Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the Tulsa Health Department. ....

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