Text of OK HB 3135 (2024)
Education funding; prohibiting public funds from being used to promote, encourage, or provide certain instruction; effective date; emergency.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
HOUSE BILL 3135
By: Humphrey
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to education funding; prohibiting
public funds from being used to promote, encourage,
or provide certain instruction; including certain
materials, programs, and activities in prohibition;
directing certain entities to administer and ensure
compliance with prohibition; providing for
codification; providing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency.
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 24-162 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A public school, charter school, technology center school,
or institution of higher education shall not use public funds to
promote, encourage, or provide instruction on topics related to
sexual choice, sexual orientation, drag queens, or similar topics in
public educational institutions.
B. The prohibition in subsection A of this section includes,
but is not limited to, the development or procurement of curriculum
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materials, educational programs, or activities that promote or
involve the prohibited topics.
C. The State Board of Education, State Board of Career and
Technology Education, and Oklahoma State Regents for Higher
Education shall administer and ensure compliance with the provisions
of this section within the respective public educational
institutions they govern.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2024.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
59-2-8477
EK
01/08/24