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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 2 By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; requiring certain s chools
and institutions of higher educati on to disseminate
certain historic proclamations; pr oviding
proclamations to be disseminated; providing for
manner of dissemination; 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 11-112 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. Each school district, public charter school, virtual charter
school, career and technology school , and institution of higher
education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall
disseminate historic proclamations regarding the Thanksgiving
holiday. The proclamations shall include:
1. The Proclamation by the C ontinental Congress for a day of
Thanksgiving on December 18, 1777;
2. The First Presidential Prayer Proclamation issued by George
Washington for November 26, 1789;
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3. The Thanksgiving Pro clamation issued by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt for November 23, 1944;
4. The Thanksgiving Procl amation issued by Ronald Reagan for
November 28, 1985; and
5. The Thanksgiving Proclamation issued by Mayor of Oklahoma
City Sidney Clarke for No vember 28, 1889.
B. The proclamations included in subsection A of this act may
be disseminated to students in the following manner:
1. One proclamation may be read to students in the classroom or
at a school assembly each of the five days leading up to
Thanksgiving and prior to a school’s holiday break;
2. Proclamations may be printed and distributed to students
each of the five days leading up to Thanksg iving and prior to a
school’s holiday break; or
3. Proclamations may be emailed to students each of the five
days leading up to Thanksgiving and prior to a school’s holiday
break.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2023.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health , or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
59-1-344 EB 11/23/2022 8:42:28 AM