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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
April 17, 2025
ENGROSSED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1732 By: Moore, Hays, Deck, Burns,
and Munson of the House
and
Murdock and Bullard of the
Senate
An Act relating to school athletics; declaring right
of schools to broadcast athletic activities;
prohibiting certain Oklahoma Secondary School
Activities Association contractual agreements from
preventing school broadcasts; stating applicability
of act; defining terms; 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 27 -200 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numberi ng, reads as follows:
A. Schools shall have the right to broadcast all high school
athletic activities in this state in which the school's athletic
team is participating.
B. If the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association
enters into an exclusive broadcast agreement for an athletic
activity, such agreement shall not prohibit a local broadcaster or
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school from broadcasting a school 's athletic activity in which the
school's athletic team is participating.
C. The provisions of this section shall app ly to contracts
involving the right to broadcast that are entered into or renewed on
or after the effective date of this act.
D. For purposes of this section:
1. "Athletic activity" means any high school athletic pre -
season, regular season, or playoff ga me;
2. "Broadcast" means the live or recorded audio or video
transmission over airwaves, streaming, or other transmission of an
athletic activity, play-by-play, or other account of such activity
via radio, television, Internet, or other technologies;
3. "Exclusive broadcast agreement " means an agreement entered
into between the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association
and an organization to broadcast the Oklahoma Secondary School
Activities Association 's athletic activities under which such
organization retains sole rights to broadcast such activities or
first right to broadcast such activities;
4. "Local broadcaster" means an organization, located in
Oklahoma, that provides local broadcast services for any activity of
a local school. Local broadcaster includes school -sponsored
organizations that produce student -organized broadcasts such as
educational courses or programs offered by the school; and
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5. "Organization" means an individual, public or private
corporation, partnership, limited liabilit y company, association,
joint venture, or any other legal or commercial entity.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, h ealth 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.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
April 17, 2025 - DO PASS