Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB991 Amended / Bill

Filed 04/21/2025

                     
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION 
 
STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
ENGROSSED SENATE 
BILL NO. 991 	By: Thompson, Daniels, 
Gillespie, and Frix of the 
Senate 
 
  and 
 
  Gise, Pae, Schreiber, West 
(Kevin), Hefner, Hill, and 
West (Tammy) of the House 
 
 
 
 
An Act relating to discrimination; adopting certain 
definition of anti-Semitism; stating purposes for use 
of certain definition; construing provisions; and 
providing for codification. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE ST ATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1911 of Title 25, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  The State of Oklahoma hereby ado pts the non-legally binding 
Working Definition of Anti -Semitism adopted by the International 
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on May 26, 2016, including the 
contemporary examples of anti -Semitism set forth therein, 
exclusively as a tool and guide for training, education, and   
 
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recognizing and combating anti -Semitic hate crimes or discrimination 
and for tracking and reporting anti -Semitic incidents in this state. 
B.  The provisions of this act shall not be construed to 
diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First 
Amendment to the United States Constitution or the Oklahoma 
Constitution. 
 
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND PUBLIC SAFETY 
OVERSIGHT, dated 04/17/2025 - DO PASS, As Coauthored .