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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 776 By: Rader
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the torts; creating Julie’s Law;
providing short title; amending 76 O.S. 2021,
Sections 50.2 and 50.3, which relates to the Oklahoma
Livestock Activities Liability Limitation Act;
defining terms; exempting certain provisions;
requiring the use of helmets for certain individuals
engaging in certain activities; allowing for waiver;
providing for noncodification; 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 not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as “Julie’s Law”.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 76 O.S. 2021, Section 50.2, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 50.2. As used in the Oklahoma Livestock Activities
Liability Limitation Act:
1. “Engages in a livestock activity” includes training, racing,
showing, riding, or assisting in medical treatment of, or driving
livestock, or engaging in any agritourism activity involving
livestock or on a location where livestock are displayed or raised,
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and any person assisting a participant, livestock activity sponsor
or livestock professional. The term “engages in a livestock
activity” does not include being a spectator at a livestock
activity, except in cases where the spectator places himself or
herself in immediate proximity to livestock activity;
2. “Agritourism activity ” includes, but is not limited to, any
activity carried out on a farm or ranch that allows members of the
general public, for recreational, entertainment, or educational
purposes, to view or enjoy rural activities, including farming,
ranching, historic, cultural, harvest -your-own activities, or
natural activities and attractions. An activity is an agritourism
activity whether or not the participant pays to participate in the
activity;
3. “Equestrian facility” means a facility created and
maintained for the purpose of accomm odating horses for equine
activities. Equestrian facility does not mean a facility used for
livestock activities ;
3. 4. “Equine activity” means equine training or teaching
activities or both such training or teaching activities at an
equestrian facility;
5. “Livestock” means any cattle, bison, hog, sheep, goat,
equine livestock, including but not limited to animals of the
families bovidae, cervidae and antilocapridae or birds o f the ratite
group;
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4. 6. “Livestock activity” includes but is not limited to :
a. livestock shows, fairs, livestock sales, competitions,
performances, or parades that involve any or all
breeds of livestock and any of the livestock
disciplines, including, but not limited to, rodeos,
auctions, driving, pulling, judging, cutting and
showing,
b. livestock training or teaching activities or both such
training and teaching activities,
c. boarding or pasturing livestock,
d. inspecting or evaluating livestock belo nging to
another, whether or not the owner has received some
monetary consideration or other thing of value for the
use of the livestock or is permitting a prospective
purchaser of the livestock to inspect or evaluate the
livestock,
e. drives, rides, trips , hunts or other livestock
activities of any type however informal or impromptu
that are sponsored by a livestock activity sponsor,
f. placing or replacing horseshoes on an equine, or
otherwise preparing livestock for show, and
g. agritourism activities in volving the viewing of,
handling of, riding of, showing of, or other
interactive activities with livestock;
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5. 7. “Livestock activity sponsor ” means an individual, group,
club, partnership or corporation, whether or not the sponsor is
operating for profit or nonprofit, which sponsors, organizes, or
provides the facilities for, a livestock activity, including but not
limited to: livestock clubs, 4 -H clubs, FFA chapters, school and
college-sponsored classes, programs and activities, therapeutic
riding programs, and operators, instructors, and promoters of
livestock facilities, includ ing, but not limited to, barns, stables,
clubhouses, ponyride strings, fairs and arenas at which the activity
is held;
6. 8. “Livestock professional ” means a person engaged for
compensation in:
a. instructing a participant or renting to a participant
livestock for the purpose of engaging in livestock
activity, or
b. renting equipment or tack to a participant;
7. 9. “Inherent risks of livestock activities ” means those
dangers or conditions which are an integral part of livestock
activities, including but n ot limited to:
a. the propensity of livestock to behave in ways that may
result in injury to persons on or around them,
b. the unpredictability of livestock ’s reaction to such
things as sounds, sudden movement and unfamiliar
objects, persons or other animals,
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c. certain hazards such as surface and subsurface
conditions unknown to the livestock activity sponsor,
d. collisions with other livestock or objects, and
e. the potential of tack to become dislodged or move in
ways that may result in injury to persons on or around
livestock activities; and
8. 10. “Participant” means any person, whether amateur or
professional, who engages in a livestock activity, whether or not a
fee is paid to participate in the livestock activity.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 76 O.S. 2021, Section 50.3, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 50.3. A. Except as provided in subsection B of this
section, a livestock activity sponsor, a par ticipant or a livestock
professional acting in good faith and pursuant to the standards of
the livestock industry shall not be liable for injuries to any
person engaged in livestock activities when such injuries result
from the inherent risks of livestock activities.
B. 1. The provisions of the Oklahoma Livestock Activities
Liability Limitation Act shall not apply to employees of the sponsor
or livestock professional in the performance of their duties who are
covered by or subject to the provisions of the workers’ compensation
laws of Title 85 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
2. Nothing in subsection A of this section shall prevent or
limit the liability of a livestock activity sponsor, a participant
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or a livestock professional, if the livestock activity sponsor , a
participant or livestock professional:
a. commits an act or omission that constitutes willful or
wanton disregard for the safety of any person engaged
in livestock activities, and that act or omission
caused the injury,
b. intentionally injures a perso n engaged in livestock
activities,
c. provided the equipment or tack, which wa s faulty, and
such equipment or tack was faulty to the extent that
it did cause the injury. The provisions of this
subparagraph shall not apply to livestock activities
sponsored by youth organizations when youth
participants share equipment or tack between
themselves,
d. provided the livestock and failed to make a reasonable
effort to determine the ability of the participant to
manage the particular livestock based upon the
participant’s representations of such participant ’s
ability. Provided, however, a participant in a
livestock show, livestock sale, or rodeo shall be
presumed to be competent in the handling of livestock
if an entry form is required for the activity and
signed by the participant, or
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e. owns, leases, rents or otherwise is in lawful
possession and control of the land or facilities upon
which the participant sustained injuries because of a
dangerous condition which was known to the livestock
activity sponsor, lives tock professional or person and
not made known to the participant.
3. Nothing in subsection A of this section shall prevent or
limit the liability of a livestock activity sponsor, a participant
or a livestock professional:
a. under liability provisions as set forth in the
products liability laws, or
b. for livestock activities which result in the death of
any person engaged in livestock activities from the
inherent risks of livestock activities.
4. Nothing in subsection A of this section shall prevent or
limit the liability of an individual owning, leasing, renting, or
otherwise in lawful possession of an equestrian facility who fails
to follow the provisions of Section 3 of this act.
C. A sponsor shall not be held vicariously liable for the acts
or omission of a participant or a livestock professional.
SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 50.5 of Title 76, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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A. It shall be unlawful for a person less than eighteen (18)
years of age to engage in equine activities at an equestrian
facility in this state without wearing protective headgear secured
by a harness, which passed ASTM International and the Safety
Equipment Institute standards for equine activity use.
B. The provisions of this section may be waived pursuant to
Section 50.4 of Title 76 of the Oklahoma Statutes .
SECTION 5. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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