Text of OK SB 676 (2022)
Crime and punishment; providing definition; providing certain penalty. Effective date.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 676
By: Hamilton
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to crime and punishment; making
certain medical treatment unlawful; providing
definition; providing for certain penalty; 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 761 of Title 21, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. It shall be unlawful for a person under the age of twenty-
one (21) years to undergo gender reassignment medical treatment in
this state.
B. It shall be unlawful for a parent, guardian or other person
in this state having charge, control or custody of a child under the
age of eighteen (18) years to obtain gender reassignment medical
treatment for the child.
C. It shall be unlawful for a health care professional to
intentionally perform gender reassignment medical treatment on a
person who is under the age of twenty-one (21) years.
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D. “Gender reassignment medical treatment” means any health
care to facilitate the transitioning of a patient’s assigned gender
identity on the patient’s birth certificate, to the gender identity
experienced and defined by the patient. The term shall include, but
not be limited to:
1. Medical procedures to suppress the development of endogenous
secondary sex characteristics;
2. Medical procedures to align the patient’s appearance or
physical body with the patient’s gender identity. This does not
include clothing, hairstyles, the use of makeup or other non-
permanent actions of the patient; and
3. Medical procedures to alleviate the symptoms of clinically
significant distress resulting from gender dysphoria, as defined in
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th
Edition. The term does not include behavioral health care services,
such as mental health counseling.
E. Any person guilty of the provisions of subsection A, B or C
shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the
custody of the Department of Corrections for a term of not less than
three (3) years nor more than life and a fine of not more than
Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00).
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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