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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 505 By: Rogers
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public employees; prohibiting
certain work stoppage ; stating consequences for
violation; protecting certain right of i ndividual;
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 847 of Title 74, unless there is
created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. Public employees shall not strike or engag e in an organized
work stoppage against the state or any political subdivision of this
state.
B. A public employee who violates subsection A of this act
automatically forfeits his or her employment with the state or
political subdivision, all civil service rights , pensions,
reemployment rights, and benefits, as a result o f public employment.
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C. A public employee who is emplo yed as a teacher or
administrator and violates subsection A of this act shall have his
or her state teaching certificates revoked.
D. The right of an individual to cease work m ay not be abridged
if the individual is not acting in concert with others in an
organized work stoppage.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
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