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OK SB954

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Julie Daniels

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against students and employees in Oklahoma higher education institutions and public schools.

  • Defines antisemitism using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition and requires institutions to integrate this definition into student, faculty, and employee codes of conduct with penalties identical to racism violations.

  • Treats harassment and discrimination motivated by antisemitic intent identically to race-based discrimination, and specifies six categories of prohibited antisemitic conduct including violence, supporting BDS, masked demonstrations, and antisemitic curriculum.

  • Requires the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and State Board of Education to monitor institutions for antisemitic activity and impose at least a one-percent funding reduction if institutions fail to address violations within 30 days of notice.

  • Becomes effective July 1, 2025, and includes emergency clause; preserves First Amendment protections and does not conflict with existing federal or state discrimination laws.

Legislative Description

Education; prohibiting certain exclusions, denials, and discrimination. Emergency.

Last Action

Second Reading referred to Education

2/4/2025

Committee Referrals

Education2/4/2025

Full Bill Text

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