OK SB1728

Adds "coercive control" as a new defined term under the Protection from Domestic Abuse Act, encompassing behaviors such as isolating victims from support networks, depriving basic necessities, controlling finances and communications, compelling compliance through force or intimidation, animal cruelty as intimidation, forced sex acts, and aiding in suicide

Expands the definition of coercive control to specifically include malicious threats of legal prosecution for conduct permitted by law (committee amendment)

Clarifies that willfully aiding an "intimate partner or family member" in suicide qualifies as coercive control (committee amendment updating language)

Amends 22 O.S. 2021, Section 60.1 to incorporate the new coercive control definition alongside existing definitions for domestic abuse, stalking, harassment, and related terms

Effective date: November 1, 2026