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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 2396 By: Russ and Randleman
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to schools; authorizing school
district boards to adopt policies regarding sex
trafficking and exploitation prevention and awareness
education programs for students; allowing school
districts to offer certain students education
programs; directing school districts to partner with
nonprofit organizations that will provide programs
and literature without cost to school districts;
providing list of topics included in programs;
providing program materials to school district and
participating students and parents at no cost;
allowing certain nonprofit organizations to present
sex trafficking and exploitation prevention and
education programs at institutions of higher
education; directing institutions of higher education
to provide freshmen students the opportunity to
attend sex trafficking and exploita tion prevention
and education programs during freshmen orientation;
providing list of topics included in programs;
providing program materials to students and parents
at no cost; requiring program provider to incur costs
of implementing prevention and educ ation programs and
program materials; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 24 -100.9 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The board of education of each school district in this state
may adopt a policy regarding sex trafficking and exploitation
prevention and awareness education programs for students.
B. The board of education of each school district in this state
may provide schoolwide education programs to all students in grades
seven through twelve and staff addressing sex trafficking and
exploitation preventio n and awareness. The board of education of
each school district in this state shall, if offered by nonprofit
organizations that specialize in outreach and education programs on
sex trafficking and exploitation, partner with such organizations
and make available to school districts such literature which
addresses sex trafficking and exploitation. Such literature and
services shall be at no cost to the school districts. Beginning
with the 2022-2023 school year, every school district may provide a
two-hour sex trafficking and exploitation prevention and awareness
training program for students in grades seven through twelve which
specifically includes the following:
1. Definitions and nature of sex trafficking and exploitation;
2. Current laws of sex traffi cking and exploitation in
Oklahoma;
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3. Facts and statistics of sex trafficking and exploitation in
Oklahoma and throughout the United States;
4. How sex traffickers profile victims;
5. The role of online computer activity;
6. How demand is created and the industries that influence sex
trafficking and exploitation;
7. How to identify a potential victim and what to do when a
person identifies a victim;
8. Understanding force, fraud and coercion;
9. Understanding how traffickers groom a victim;
10. The differences between prostitution and sex trafficking
and exploitation;
11. The role that pornography plays in sex trafficking and
exploitation;
12. Understanding the complexities of abuse, indoctrination and
manipulation;
13. Understanding the physio logical makeup of a sex trafficking
victim;
14. Rescuing victims of sex trafficking and exploitation; and
15. How to engage in the fight against sex trafficking and
exploitation.
C. Program materials related to the sex trafficking and
exploitation prevention and education programs shall be provided at
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no cost to the school districts or participating students and
parents.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3250 of Title 70, un less there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Upon the effective date of this act, the Oklahoma State
Regents for Higher Education shall allow, if offered by nonprofit
organizations that specialize in outreach and education progra ms on
sex trafficking and exploitation, a series of in -depth prevention
and education programs regarding sex trafficking and exploitation to
all freshmen students enrolled at institutions of higher education
that are members of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education.
B. Institutions of higher education shall provide all freshmen
students the opportunity to attend one of three on -campus, voluntary
sex trafficking and exploitation prevention and education programs
at any time, including during freshme n orientation activities, if
offered by nonprofit organizations that specialize in outreach and
education programs on sex trafficking and exploitation. The sex
trafficking and exploitation prevention and education programs shall
specifically provide stude nts the following:
1. Definitions and nature of sex trafficking and exploitation;
2. Current laws of sex trafficking and exploitation in
Oklahoma;
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3. Facts and statistics of sex trafficking and exploitation in
Oklahoma and throughout the United States;
4. How sex traffickers profile victims;
5. The role of online computer activity;
6. How demand is created and the industries that influence sex
trafficking and exploitation;
7. How to identify a potential victim and what to do when a
person identifies a victim;
8. Understanding force, fraud and coercion;
9. Understanding how traffickers groom a victim;
10. The differences between prostitution, sex trafficking and
exploitation;
11. The role that pornography plays in sex trafficking and
exploitation;
12. Understanding the complexities of abuse, indoctrination and
manipulation;
13. Understanding the physiological makeup of a sex trafficking
victim;
14. Rescuing victims of sex trafficking and exploitation; and
15. How to engage in the fight against sex trafficking and
exploitation.
C. Program materials related to sex trafficking and
exploitation prevention and education programs shall be provided at
no cost to participating students and parents. The program provider
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shall be solely responsible for incurring all costs associated with
implementing prevention and education programs and related program
materials.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON COMMON EDUCATION, dated 02/0 9/2021
- DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.