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OK SB591
Bill
Status
2/3/2025
Primary Sponsor
Dusty Deevers
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AI Summary
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Prohibits public school and state higher education employees from addressing unemancipated minor students by names or pronouns inconsistent with their sex as listed on their original birth certificate, unless parents provide written permission
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Protects employees from adverse employment action for refusing to use names, pronouns, or titles inconsistent with a person's sex, or for declining to identify their own pronouns
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Protects students from disciplinary action for refusing to use names, pronouns, or titles inconsistent with a person's sex, or for declining to identify their own pronouns
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Creates a private cause of action allowing harmed employees or students to sue public schools or state higher education institutions for injunctive relief, monetary damages, and attorney fees, with a 2-year statute of limitations
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Effective date of July 1, 2025, with an emergency clause allowing immediate effect upon passage and approval
Legislative Description
Education; creating the Free to Speak Act; prohibiting public school and certain institution of higher learning employees from addressing certain students in certain manner. Effective date. Emergency.
Last Action
Second Reading referred to Education
2/4/2025