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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 2696 By: Ford of the House
and
Rader of the Senate
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Open Records Act;
amending 51 O.S. 2021, Section 24A.16, as amended by
Section 1, Chapter 86, O.S.L. 2024 (51 O.S. Supp.
2024, Section 24A.16), which relates to educational
records; requiring schools to release certain records
to parents, guardians, or adult students; requiring
records to be provided in a timely manner; mandating
that certain record requests be provided for free;
specifying that certain information cannot be
omitted; providing examples of certain records; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 51 O.S. 2021, Section 24A.16, as
amended by Section 1, Chapter 86, O.S.L. 2024 (51 O.S. Supp. 2024,
Section 24A.16), is amended to read as follows:
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Section 24A.16. A. Except as set forth in subsection B of this
section, public educational institutions and their employees may
keep confidential:
1. Individual student records;
2. Teacher lesson plans, tests and other teaching materia l;
3. Personal communications concerning individual students; and
4. Any contract for use of a student athlete’s name, image, or
likeness disclosed to a postsecondary institution pursuant to the
Student Athlete Name, Image and Likeness Rights Act.
B. If kept, statistical information not identified with a
particular student and directory information shall be open for
inspection and copying. Except as provided in subsection C of this
section, each educat ional institution may choose to designate
specific information which shall be classified as directory
information for students attending the educational institution. In
accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act,
Section 1232g of Title 20 of the United States Code and Part 99 of
Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, “directory information”
includes a student’s name, address, telephone listing, date and
place of birth, major field of study, participation in officially
recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of
athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees and awards received,
and the most recent previous educational institution attended by the
student. Any educational agency or institution making public
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directory information shall give public notice of the cate gories of
information which it has designated as directory information with
respect to each student attending the institution or agency and
shall allow a reasonable period of time after the notice has bee n
given for a parent or guardian to inform the institution or agency
that any or all of the information designated should not be released
without prior consent of the parent or guardian or the student if
the student is eighteen (18) years of age or older.
C. All educational agencies or institutions which a re not the
primary custodians of student directory information of students
attending the educational institution, but which are allowed to
access the information for educational purposes, shall be prohibi ted
from releasing or selling any or all student dir ectory information
unless disclosure is authorized by the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act, Section 1232g of Title 20 of the United States Code and
Part 99 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, or Section
3-168 of Title 70 of the Oklahom a Statutes.
D. A public school district may release individual student
records for the current or previous school year to a school district
at which the student was previously enrolled for purposes of
evaluating educational programs and school effectivene ss.
E. Notwithstanding any provisions of this section, public
educational institutions and their employees shall release all
requested student records to the student's parent or guardian, or to
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the student themselves if he or she is eighteen (18) years of age or
older, if the records are requested by the parent, guardian, or the
adult student. Such records shall be provided in a timely manner in
accordance with the Oklahoma Open Records Act. An educatio nal
institution shall provide such records free of c harge, and shall not
redact or otherwise omit any information from the record, unless
including such information would violate the law. Records related
to a student include, but are not limited to, personal
communications concerning the student related to IEPs, behaviors
that result in a disciplinary action, or official school activities
including student-teacher meetings, any school staff or teacher
correspondence, individual student records, meeting not es, student
athlete contracts, proposed changes to a n Individualized Education
Program or other program for students with disabilities, student
assessments, progress reports, and internal complaints and
recommendations regarding the student.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective Novemb er 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OVERSIGHT, dated
02/26/2025 - DO PASS, As Amended.