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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 2477 By: Roberts (Sean)
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to higher education; prohibiting
certain questions from scholarship and enrollment
applications; defining term ; 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 2301 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A state educational institution within T he Oklahoma State
System of Higher Education shall remove all questions from
scholarship and enrollment application s which identify the
applicant's gender, race or ethnic group .
B. As used in this section, "state educational institution "
means any public institution supported wholly or in part by direct
legislative appropriations and offering courses of education of any
kind beyond or in ad dition to the twelfth grade, or its equivalent,
as such grade is generally understood and accepted in the public
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school system of Oklahoma, whether called a university, college,
junior college, school or academy.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-7038 EK 01/16/21