Oklahoma 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB676 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/21/2021

                             
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021) 
 
SENATE BILL 676 	By: Hamilton 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to crime and punishment; making 
certain medical treatment unlawful; providing 
definition; providing for certain penalty ; 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 codifi ed 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 761 of Title 21, unless there is 
created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows: 
A.  It shall be unlawful for a person under the age of twenty-
one (21) years to undergo gender reassignment medical treatment in 
this state. 
B.  It shall be unlawful for a parent, guardian or other person 
in this state having charge, control or custody of a child under the 
age of eighteen (18) years to obtain gender reassignment medical 
treatment for the child. 
C.  It shall be unlawful for a health care professional to 
intentionally perform gender reassignment medical treatment on a 
person who is under the age of twen ty-one (21) years.   
 
 
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D.  “Gender reassignment medical treatment” means any health 
care to facilitate the tra nsitioning of a patient’s assigned gender 
identity on the patien t’s birth certificate, to the gender identity 
experienced and defined by the patient.  The term shall include, but 
not be limited to: 
1.  Medical procedures to suppress the develop ment of endogenous 
secondary sex characteristics; 
2.  Medical procedures to align the patient’s appearance or 
physical body with the patient’s gender identity. This does not 
include clothing, hairs tyles, the use of makeup or other non -
permanent actions of the patient; and 
3.  Medical procedures to alleviate the sympto ms of clinically 
significant distress res ulting from gender dysphoria, as defined in 
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th 
Edition.  The term does not include behavioral health care services , 
such as mental health counseling. 
E.  Any person guilty of the provisions of subsection A, B or C 
shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the 
custody of the Department of Corrections for a term of not less than 
three (3) years nor more th an life and a fine of not more than 
Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00). 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become ef fective November 1, 2021. 
 
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