Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB445 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/08/2025

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
SENATE BILL 445 	By: Hamilton 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to age of consent; amending 21 O.S. 
2021, Section 1111, as last amended by Section 8, 
Chapter 452, O.S.L. 2024 (21 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 
1111), which relates to rape; increasing age of 
consent for sexual intercourse; modifying criteria 
for certain offense; updating statutory language; 
amending 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1112, which relates to 
age limitations on conviction fo r rape; modifying 
elements of certain offense; and declaring an 
emergency. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     21 O.S. 2021, Section 1111, as 
last amended by Section 8, Chapter 4 52, O.S.L. 2024 (21 O.S. Supp. 
2024, Section 1111), is amended to read as follows: 
Section 1111. A.  Rape is an act of sexual intercourse 
involving vaginal or anal penetration accomplished with a male or 
female within or without the bonds of matrimony who may be of the 
same or the opposite sex as the perpetrator under any of the 
following circumstances: 
1.  Where the victim is under sixteen (16) eighteen (18) years 
of age;   
 
 
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2.  Where the victim is incapable through mental illness or any 
other unsoundness of mind, whether temporary or permanent, of giving 
legal consent; 
3.  Where force or violence is used or threatened, accompanied 
by apparent power of execution to the victim or to another person; 
4.  Where the victim is intoxicated by a narcotic or anestheti c 
agent, administered by or with the privity of the accused as a means 
of forcing the victim to submit; 
5.  Where the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of 
the act and this fact is known to the accused; 
6.  Where the victim submits to sexual i ntercourse under the 
belief that the person committing the act is a spouse, and this 
belief is induced by artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by 
the accused or by the accused in collusion with the spouse with 
intent to induce that belief.  In all cases of collusion between the 
accused and the spouse to accomplish such act, both the spouse and 
the accused, upon conviction, shall be deemed guilty of rape; 
7.  Where the victim is under the legal custody or supervision 
of a state agency, a federal agen cy, a county, a municipality , or a 
political subdivision and engages in sexual intercourse with a 
state, federal, county, municipal , or political subdivision employee 
or an employee of a contractor of the state, the federal government, 
a county, a municipa lity, or a political subdivision that exercises 
authority over the victim, or the subcontractor or employee of a   
 
 
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subcontractor of the contractor of the state or federal government, 
a county, a municipality , or a political subdivision that exercises 
authority over the victim; 
8.  Where the victim is at least sixteen (16) years of age and 
is less than twenty (20) years of age and is a student, or under the 
legal custody or supervision of any public or private elementary or 
secondary school, junior high or hig h school, or public vocational 
school, and engages in sexual intercourse with a person who is 
eighteen (18) years of age or older and is an employee of a school 
system; 
9.  Where the victim is nineteen (19) years of age or younger 
and is in the legal custo dy of a state agency, federal agency , or 
tribal court and engages in sexual intercourse with a foster parent 
or foster parent applicant; or 
10.  Where the victim is a student at a secondary school, is 
concurrently enrolled at an institution of higher educa tion, and 
engages in acts pursuant to this subsection with a perpetrator who 
is an employee of the institution of higher education of at which 
the victim is enrolled. 
B.  “Employee of an institution of higher education ”, for 
purposes of this section, means faculty, adjunct faculty, 
instructors, volunteers, or an employee of a business contracting 
with an institution of higher education who may exercise, at any 
time, institutional authority over the victim.  Employee of an   
 
 
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institution of higher education sha ll not include an enrolled 
student who is not more than three (3) years of age or older than 
the concurrently enrolled student and who is employed or 
volunteering, in any capacity, for the institution of higher 
education. 
SECTION 2.     AMENDATORY     21 O.S. 2021, Section 1112, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 1112. No person can be convicted of rape or rape by 
instrumentation on account of an act of sexual intercourse with 
anyone over the age of fourteen (14) years and under the age of 
eighteen (18) years, with his or her consent, unless such person was 
over the age of eighteen (18) years more than four (4) years older 
than the other person at the time of such act. 
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. 
 
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