Text of OK SB 251 (2023)
Definitions and general provisions; limiting permissible applications of specified term or definition; prohibiting public entity from using other applications. Emergency.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 251
By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to definitions and general
provisions; limiting permissible applications of
specified term or definition; prohibiting public
entity from using other applications; providing for
codification; 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 24.1 of Title 25, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The only permissible applications of the terms or definitions of
“gender” or “sex” shall be male (XY), female (XX), and intersex for
those born with a mutation causing such abnormality. No public
entity in this state including but not limited to a state agency,
political subdivision, or board of education may use any other
application.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
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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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