Text of OK SB 932 (2023)
Education; prohibiting certain employees, volunteers, and contractors from using certain names or pronouns without written consent. Effective date. Emergency.
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 932
By: Jett
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to education; prohibiting certain
employees, volunteers, and contractors from using
certain names or pronouns without certain consent;
defining term; prohibiting certain schools and
institutions from requiring use of certain pronouns;
providing penalty for noncompliance; providing for
certain relief; 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 1-126 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Employees, volunteers, and contractors of a school district,
public charter school, public virtual charter school, technology
center school, or institution of higher education within The
Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall be prohibited from:
1. Using a name to address a student under the age of eighteen
(18) other than the name listed on a student’s birth certificate, or
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derivatives thereof, without written consent from the student’s
parent or legal guardian; or
2. Using a pronoun to address a student under the age of
eighteen (18) that is different from the student’s biological sex
without written consent from a student’s parent or legal guardian.
For the purposes of this section, “biological sex” means the sex of
an individual as listed on an original birth certificate.
B. 1. School districts, public charter schools, public virtual
charter schools, technology center schools, and institutions of
higher education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher
Education shall be prohibited from requiring an employee, volunteer,
or contractor from using a pronoun that does not match the
biological sex of an employee, volunteer, contractor, or student if
doing so is contrary to his or her religious or moral convictions.
2. Upon a finding of noncompliance with the provisions of
paragraph 1 of this subsection, a school district, public charter
school, public virtual charter school, technology center school, or
institution of higher education within The Oklahoma State System of
Higher Education shall be ineligible to receive state funding for
the fiscal years following the year of noncompliance.
C. Employees, volunteers, and contractors of a school district,
public charter school, public virtual charter school, technology
center school, or institution of higher education within The
Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and parents or legal
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guardians of students under the age of eighteen (18) enrolled
therein may:
1. Seek relief for a violation of this section through the
United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights;
and/or
2. Have a cause of action for injunctive relief, damages, and
any other relief permitted by law against the school district,
public charter school, public virtual charter school, technology
center school, or institution of higher education.
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, 2023.
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.
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