Verification record
How current is Oklahoma’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?
Last verified 2026-10-19. Read from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word; the weekly re-check on 2026-10-19 confirmed that every recorded passage is still there today.
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Passages captured from the issuing body
1,650 characters, word for word
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Official sources
oklegislature.gov
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Dated reads on file
captures taken 2026-10-05, 2026-10-12, 2026-10-16
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Automatic re-checks
newest 2026-10-19
The rule on file
59 O.S. 353.18A(C), as amended by SB 906. Four pharmacy technicians per pharmacist, and the same 4 applies in every setting including hospitals.
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The recorded passages
Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-16. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.
Source 1: oklegislature.gov
https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os59.pdf ↗title masthead
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19OKLAHOMA STATUTES TITLE 59. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
55 characters, recorded as written.
59 O.S. 353.18A in full, with its history line
Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19§59-353.18A. Pharmacy technicians - Permits. A. Supportive personnel may perform certain tasks in the practice of pharmacy if such personnel perform the tasks in compliance with rules promulgated by the State Board of Pharmacy. B. 1. No person shall serve as a pharmacy technician without first procuring a permit from the Board. 2. An application for an initial or renewal pharmacy technician permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall be submitted to the Board and provide any other information deemed relevant by the Board. 3. An application for an initial or renewal permit shall be accompanied by a permit fee not to exceed Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for each period of one (1) year. A permit issued pursuant to this subsection shall be valid for a period to be determined by the Board. 4. Every permitted pharmacy technician who fails to complete a renewal form and remit the required renewal fee to the Board by the fifteenth day after the expiration of the permit shall pay a late fee to be fixed by the Board. 5. A pharmacy technician permit shall be canceled thirty (30) days after expiration. 6. A person may obtain reinstatement of a canceled pharmacy technician permit by making application, paying a reinstatement fee, and satisfactorily completing other requirements set by the Board. C. A licensed retail pharmacy shall maintain a pharmacy technician-to-pharmacist ratio of not more than four pharmacy technicians for every one licensed pharmacist. Added by Laws 2015, c. 230, §12, eff. Nov. 1, 2015. Amended by Laws 2025, c. 236, §1, eff. Nov. 1, 2025.
1,595 characters, recorded as written.
Every read and every re-check, newest first
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2026-10-19
Re-check: confirmed
The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (2 of 2, 1,382 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.
2026-10-16
Re-check: confirmed
The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (2 of 2, 1,382 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.
2026-10-16
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
Oklahoma's limit is unchanged as of October 16, 2026: a retail pharmacy may have no more than four pharmacy technicians for every licensed pharmacist under 59 O.S. Section 353.18A(C), re-read from the Legislature's compiled statutes, and OAC 535:15-13-5(c), pharmacy interns do not affect that ratio, and the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy lists no proposed rule changes.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-10-15
Re-check: not allowed
The automated re-check could not read oklahoma.gov (a Word/ZIP file (.docx), which this check does not read; needs a manual download or a different official route).
2026-10-12
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
Oklahoma's limit is unchanged as of October 12, 2026: a retail pharmacy may have no more than four pharmacy technicians for every licensed pharmacist under 59 O.S. Section 353.18A(C) and OAC 535:15-13-5(c), pharmacy interns do not affect that ratio, and the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy lists no proposed rule changes.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-10-05
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
Oklahoma's limit is unchanged: a retail pharmacy may have no more than four pharmacy technicians for every licensed pharmacist under 59 O.S. Section 353.18A(C) and OAC 535:15-13-5(c), pharmacy interns do not affect that ratio, and the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy lists no proposed rule changes.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-28
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Oklahoma's limit is unchanged: a retail pharmacy may have no more than four pharmacy technicians for every licensed pharmacist under 59 O.S. Section 353.18A(C), and no rule changes are pending before the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy. Oklahoma's rules on pharmacy interns and their preceptors are separate from the technician ratio, so check the Board's current intern and preceptor requirements directly.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-21
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Oklahoma's limit is unchanged: a retail pharmacy may have no more than four pharmacy technicians for every one licensed pharmacist, under 59 O.S. Section 353.18A(C), effective November 1, 2025, and the hospital limit is also four under Board rule OAC 535:15-5-7.2. No rule changes are pending before the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy. One caution for anyone checking this themselves: free online copies of the Board's rule 535:15-13-5 still show the old limit of two technicians, which the statute replaced.
Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-17
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Oklahoma does not limit how many hours a pharmacist or pharmacy technician may work, and sets no required break or minimum rest between shifts. It does require a pharmacy to conspicuously display a work schedule showing who is working as a technician, who is working as an auxiliary supportive person, the hours each works, and the ratio of technicians to supervising pharmacists.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-16
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
An Oklahoma retail pharmacy may have no more than four pharmacy technicians for every one licensed pharmacist. That cap is in the statute itself, 59 O.S. Section 353.18A(C), added by Senate Bill 906 and effective November 1, 2025, and it replaced a Board rule that had allowed only two. The hospital limit is also four, under Board rule OAC 535:15-5-7.2. A pharmacy intern working in the pharmacy does not count toward the ratio, and a technician's national certification does not change the number, because Oklahoma licenses technicians by Board permit.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
What the re-check results mean
- Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
- Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
- Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
- Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.