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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 1659 By: Brewer
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to state government; requiring
legislators to attend racial sensitivity training;
providing method for selection of nonpr ofit entity by
the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the
Oklahoma State Senate; prescribing time limits for
training; prescribing requirements for certain
nonprofit entity; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 491 of Title 74, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Each member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the
Oklahoma State Senate shall attend a racial sensitivity training
program to be offered by a nonprofit organization selected for such
purpose by mutual agreement of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
and the Oklahoma State Senate. The training session shall occur not
later than sixty (60) days after the General Election and not later
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than thirty (30) days after any Special Election to fill a vacancy
in either chamber.
B. The training required b y subsection A of this section shall
be provided by a nonprofit entity, organized either under the laws
of another state and having an affiliated entity in the state or
organized under the laws of this state, having an exempt status
pursuant to Section 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, the principal purpose of which is to provide social
services and support to women and girls, and which entity is able to
provide the training without charge to the Oklahoma House of
Representatives and the Oklahoma State Senate. The entity shall be
required to have conducted a minimum of one hundred (100) hours of
similar training sessions for other persons or organizations within
the three-year period preceding the date as of which the training
session is conducted for the chambers of the Legislature.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-6846 MAH 01/15/21