Text of OK SB 847 (2025)
Schools; prohibiting a school district or charter school from compelling use of certain pronoun; providing for monitoring of compliance. Effective date. Emergency.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 847
By: Bullard
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; prohibiting a school
district or charter school from compelling an
employee or volunteer to use certain pronoun;
defining term; prohibiting certain materials or
resources from referring to an individual by certain
name or pronoun; providing for promulgation of rules
to monitor compliance; directing state funding of a
noncompliant school district or charter school to be
decreased by certain percentage in certain fiscal
year; creating a cause of action for certain
noncompliance; 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. No school district or charter school in this state shall
compel an employee or volunteer to refer to a student with a pronoun
other than that which corresponds to the student’s biological sex.
For the purposes of this section, “biological sex” means the
physical condition of being male or female based on genetics and
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physiology as identified on the student’s original birth
certificate.
B. No print or nonprint materials or multimedia resources
located in a school district or charter school classroom, library,
or elsewhere on the premises of the district or charter school shall
refer to an individual by a name or by a pronoun that does not
correspond to the individual’s biological sex.
C. The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules for
monitoring compliance with the provisions of this section. Upon a
finding of noncompliance by the Board, the noncompliant school
district or charter school shall receive a five percent (5%)
reduction in state funding for the fiscal year following the fiscal
year during which the district or charter school was noncompliant.
D. A parent or legal guardian of a student enrolled in and
attending a school district or charter school shall have a cause of
action against the district or charter school for noncompliance with
the provisions of subsections A and B of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
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.
60-1-48
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