Text of OK SB 1323 (2016)
Schools; directing the withholding of State Aid if a Board of Education adopts certain policy and receives certain complaint. Effective date.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 55th Legislature (2016)
SENATE BILL 1323
By: Brecheen
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; providing definition;
directing a school district’s State Aid allocation to
be withheld if the board of education adopts certain
policy and receives certain complaint; directing a
board of education to respond to certain complaint
within certain time period; providing method of
response to prevent withholding of State Aid
allocation; providing for promulgation of rules;
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 18-203 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section, “sex” means the physical condition
of being male or female, as identified at birth by that individual’s
anatomy.
B. 1. If a school district board of education adopts a policy
which allows:
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a.
student restrooms or athletic changing facilities
designated for the exclusive use of the male sex to be
accessed by members of the female sex, and/or
b.
student restrooms or athletic changing facilities
designated for the exclusive use of the female sex to
be accessed by members of the male sex; and
2. A parent or guardian of a student enrolled in a school
district submits a written complaint to a school district board of
education that has adopted such a policy and the board of education
does not respond as provided for in subsection C of this section,
the school district’s State Aid allocation shall be withheld.
C. A school district board of education that receives a
complaint as provided for in paragraph 2 of subsection B of this
section shall respond within thirty (30) days of receiving the
complaint.
A school district’s State Aid allocation shall not be withheld
if the board of education responds to the complaint by:
1.
Reversing the policy allowing student restrooms or athletic
changing facilities designated for the exclusive use of the female
or male sex to be accessed by members of the opposite sex; and/or
2.
Providing access to single-occupancy restrooms or athletic
changing facilities to students whose parent or guardian submits to
the school district board of education a written request to receive
accommodations.
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D. The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules to
implement the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2016.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health and 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.
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