2025 Oklahoma Legislative Session Summary

2025 Oklahoma Legislative Session Summary

Victory in the fight against cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care. Lawmakers make many decisions that impact the lives of Oklahomans impacted by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease.

In 2025 the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) worked with the Oklahoma Legislature in support of the following priorities:

Ensuring Access to Quality Care

• Genetic Testing Access: The Oklahoma Legislature approved legislation that will require health plans to provide coverage for genetic testing for inherited cancer risk and eliminate cost-sharing requirements for clinically appropriate genetic testing and guideline recommended cancer imaging for those at high-risk of developing cancer. This legislation will ensure that more Oklahomans will have access to information regarding their cancer risk, without the burden of out-of-pocket costs.
• Supplemental Breast Imaging Access: The Oklahoma Legislature passed, and overrode the governor’s veto of legislation that will expand access to supplemental breast imaging by prohibiting commercial insurers from charging patients for supplemental imaging needed because of personal risk factors.
• Affordable, Adequate Health Insurance: ACS CAN successfully advocated against legislation that would have limited and prohibited the consideration of health insurance mandates by the Legislature in certain circumstances.
• Rare Diseases: The Oklahoma Legislature approved legislation establishing a Rare Disease Advisory Council within the Oklahoma State Department of Health.

Reducing the Toll of Tobacco

• Fighting Big Tobacco: ACS CAN successfully advocated against legislation that would have established a 50 percent exemption from the cigarette tax for heated tobacco products. ACS CAN also successfully advocated against multiple tobacco industry measures to establish industry-written regulatory policies for e-cigarette products.
• Tobacco Taxes: ACS CAN continues to advocate for an increase in the cigarette tax with a parallel increase on all other tobacco products.
• Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Funding: ACS CAN worked to maintain funding for fact-based, statewide tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Funding for the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) was protected, with a fiscal year budget of over $36 million, an increase of nearly $4 million from the previous fiscal year.

For more information, contact: Matt Glanville, Oklahoma and Arkansas Government Relations Director, ACS CAN   [email protected]  405.301.6311  
ACS CAN is making cancer a top priority for public officials and candidates at the federal, state, and local levels. ACS CAN empowers advocates across the country to make their voices heard and influence evidence-based public policy change as well as legislative and regulatory solutions that will reduce the cancer burden. As the American Cancer Society’s nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN is critical to the fight for a world without cancer. For more information, please visit www.fightcancer.org.