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OK SB792

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Shane Jett

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Oklahoma's School Safety and Bullying Prevention Act to recognize students' fundamental right to use reasonable physical force for self-defense when attacked by another student exhibiting bullying or threatening behavior

  • Prohibits school districts from disciplining students found through investigation to have "more likely than not" used physical force for self-protection or to protect another person from physical harm

  • Requires school district policies to explicitly prohibit zero-tolerance disciplinary policies for bullying victims, defined as policies resulting in automatic suspension or expulsion regardless of circumstances

  • Mandates that administrators consider whether violent acts were committed in self-defense as an immediate response to school violence by another student when determining disciplinary action

  • Effective date of July 1, 2025, with emergency clause for immediate implementation upon passage and approval

Legislative Description

School Safety and Bullying Prevention Act; requiring certain policy. Effective date. Emergency.

Last Action

Coauthored by Representative Hall (principal House author)

3/13/2025

Committee Referrals

Education2/4/2025

Full Bill Text

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