Schools; creating the Oklahoma Sexual Education Reform and Parental Rights Protection Act; requiring written consent for a student to participate in certain instruction. Effective date. Emergency.
2025 Regular Session
A. The board of education of a school district [...] shall develop and adopt a policy [...] including: 3. Procedures by which parents who object to any learning material or activity on the basis that it is harmful may withdraw their children [...] Objection to a learning material or activity on the basis that it is harmful includes objection to a material or activity because it questions beliefs or practices in sex, morality, or religion;
4. If a school district offers any sex education curricula pursuant to Section 11-105.1 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes or pursuant to any rules adopted by the State Board of Education, procedures to require written consent from a parent for a child to participate in comprehensive sexual education or sexual risk reduction instruction or optimal sexual health education or sexual risk avoidance instruction, as defined in Section 1 of this act;
“Comprehensive sexual education” or “sexual risk reduction” means any educational program that includes, endorses, or promotes any of the following: [...] g. the teaching of gender identity and gender expression outside the binary concept of male and female, without emphasizing the biological basis of sex. [...] k. instruction segmented for students of different sexual orientation and gender identity
History
Date | Action |
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2025-02-03 | Authored by Senator Jett |
2025-02-03 | First Reading |