Text of OK HB 1597 (2015)
Business; permitting business entities to refuse services to certain persons or groups; effective date.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 55th Legislature (2015)
HOUSE BILL 1597
By: Kern
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to business; permitting business
entities to refuse services to certain persons or
groups; barring civil or criminal fines for refusal;
providing immunity from civil liability; defining
term; providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1001 of Title 25, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. No business entity shall be required to provide any
services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or
privileges related to any lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender
person, group or association.
B. The refusal of a business entity to engage in any activity
described in subsection A of this section shall not result in a
civil or criminal fine under state or local law based upon the
refusal.
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C. Any business entity refusing to engage in an activity
described in subsection A of this section shall be immune from civil
liability for any damages caused by said refusal.
D. As used in this section, "business entity" means a person,
partnership, general partnership, limited partnership, corporation,
limited liability company or any other entity conducting lawful
activity which is organized pursuant to the laws of the state or
which is authorized to do business in the state if organized under
the laws of another jurisdiction.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2015.
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