Sex education; Parents' Bill of Rights; providing for parental opt in for child to participate in sex education; effective date; emergency.
2024 Regular Session
"Sex" means the classification of a person as either female or male based on the organization of the body of the person for a specific reproductive role, as indicated by the person's sex [...] The term "gender" shall be synonymous with the term "sex" as defined here; and "Woman" or "girl" means a natural person who is female.
Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties in schools and charter schools on sexual orientation or gender identity shall not occur in prekindergarten through grade twelve
It shall be the policy of every public school or charter school that is provided or authorized by the Oklahoma Constitution and state laws that a person's sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to the person's sex.
An employee, contractor, or student of a public school or charter school shall not be required, as a condition of employment, enrollment, or participation in any program, to refer to another person using that person's preferred personal title or pronouns if the personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person's sex.
An employee or contractor of a public school or charter school shall not provide to a student his or her preferred personal title or pronouns if the preferred personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person's sex.
A student shall not be asked by an employee or contractor of a public school or charter school to provide his or her preferred personal title or pronouns or be penalized or subjected to adverse or discriminatory treatment for not providing his or her preferred personal title or pronouns.
date | time | type | location | description |
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2024-02-20 | 10:30 | Hearing | Room 5s2 | House General Government Hearing |
History
Date | Action |
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2024-02-22 | CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute General Government Committee |
2024-02-06 | Second Reading referred to General Government |
2024-02-05 | Authored by Representative Williams |
2024-02-05 | First Reading |