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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1869 By: Bullard
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the State Department of Education;
directing the Department to prepare parental rights
impact statements for certain bills; providing
contents of statement; providing process for
requesting statements; providing for filing of
statements by certain deadline; requiring posting of
statement on certain website; 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 1-126 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplica tion in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Upon request as provided for in this section , the State
Department of Education shall prepare a parental rights impact
statement for any bill filed in the Senate or House of
Representatives that proposes changes to the rights of parents or
legal guardians over students enrolled in a public sch ool district
or public charter school . The statement required by this subsection
shall include a determination regarding whether the bill will
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remove, diminish, or expand the rights of parents or legal guardians
or whether such rights will not be affected.
B. 1. The chairs of the committee s with responsibility over
common education in the Senate and the House of Representatives to
which a bill that meets the criteria of subsection A of this section
is assigned shall determine whether to request a parenta l rights
impact statement.
2. The State Department of Education shall p repare and file a
parental rights impact statement with the requesting chair of the
committee to which th e bill is referred. The statement shall be
filed prior to the deadline for bills to be considered by a
committee in the legislative house of origin.
C. The parental rights impact statement filed pursuant to
subsection B of this section shall be posted on the legislative
house of origin’s website where information for legislation is
posted.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2024.
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 thi s act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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