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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
SENATE BILL 1142 By: Standridge
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; prohibiting c ertain
schools and school librari es from maintaining or
promoting certain books; allowing a parent or legal
guardian of a student to submit certain request to
remove certain book; requiring removal of the book
within certain time period; requiring certain
employee to be dismissed or not reemployed, subject
to certain provisions, for failure to remove certain
book; prohibiting certain employee from being
employed by certain school for certain time period;
providing for removal of book; creating a cause of
action for failing to meet certain requirements;
providing for award of certain damages, fees, and
costs; providing for codification; providing an
effective date; and declaring an emergency .
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 16-130 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in nu mbering, reads as follows:
A. No public school district, public charter school, or public
school library shall maintain in its inventory or promote books that
make as their primary subject the study of sex, sexual preferences,
sexual activity, sexual perv ersion, sex-based classifications,
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sexual identity, or gender identity or books that are of a se xual
nature that a reasonable parent or legal guardian would want to know
of or approve of prior to their child being exposed to it.
B. 1. The parent or legal guardian of a student who believes a
public school district, public charter school, or public school
library is maintaining book(s) in violation of subsecti on A of this
section may submit a written request to the school district
superintendent or charter school administrator to remove the book(s)
from the public school district, public charter schoo l, or public
school library.
2. The book(s) requested for removal shall be removed from the
public school district, public charter school, or public school
library within thirty (30) days of receiving the request.
3. A public school district or public charter school employee
tasked with removing a book from a public school district, public
charter school, or public school library who does not do so within
thirty (30) days of receiving a request shall be dismissed or not
reemployed, subject to the provisions of the T eacher Due Process Act
of 1990, and the employee shall be prohibited from being emplo yed by
a public school district or public charter school for a period of
two (2) years. The book shall be removed from the public school
district, public charter school, or public school library by a
school administrator .
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C. A parent or legal guardian shall have a cause of action
against a public school district or public charter school for
failing to meet the requirements of subsection B of this section and
may seek monetary damages including a minimum of Ten Thousand
Dollars ($10,000.00) per day the book reques ted for removal is not
removed, reasonable attorney fees, and court costs.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservat ion
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason wh ereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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