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2020 Legislative Agenda

Legislative Agenda - 2nd Session of the 57th Legislature (2020)

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Bills in Opposition:
  • SB1819 -  This bill will prohibit gender affirming medical care for youth under 18 in the state of Oklahoma. This bill is extremely dangerous for our transgender and gender non-conforming youth.
    • ​Authored by Senator Nathan Dahm 
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. 
      • Room 256 
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5551
  • SB1459 - This bill would prohibit any city in Oklahoma from becoming a sanctuary city and also has other strict limitation on immigrant rights. 
    • ​​Authored by Senator Nathan Dahm ​
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 256 
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5551
  • SB1515 - This bill would prohibit employers from discriminating against employees or prospective employees by refusing to reasonably accommodate an employee's or prospective employee's religious observances. Such observances relating to he following: medical procedures, treatment or experiment that conflicts with the religious beliefs of the employee or perspective employee. 
    • ​​Authored by Senator Joseph Silk ​
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 416
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5614
  • HB2900 - This bill would delete language from the law regarding legal abortion exceptions to the act of homicide. 
    • ​​Authored by Rep. Justin Humphrey
      • ​Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 301
      • Phone Number: (405) 557-7382
  • HB4116 - This bill would outlaw all abortion or attempts to assist in abortion. The bill also sets a felony penalty for imprisonment for any such violation at 40-50 years in prison as well as between 250k and 500k fine. 
    • Authored by Rep. Justin Humphrey
      • ​Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 250,1
      • Phone Number: (405) 557-7322
  • SB1721 - This bill would create personhood for fetuses. Such personhood only applying to the act of abortion. 
    • Authored by Senator David Bullard
      • ​Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 443
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5586
  • SB1728 - This bill would allow the parent or grandparent to seek damages from any physician who does not follow a large host of ambiguous language. E.g.-Screening for illness, fatigue, psychological impairment, etc. 
    • Authored by Senator David Bullard
      • ​Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 443
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5586
  • SB1786 - would prohibit the licensing of any doctor who has been proven to have provided a legal abortion unless such abortion was performed to preserve the life of the mother. 
    • ​Authored by Senator Nathan Dahm 
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. 
      • Room 256 
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5551
  • SB1859 - would make any aborition where an embronic or fetal brainwave activity test is not performed a grounds for non-renewal of such practitioner's medical license. The same also applies if such test is performed and the abortion proceeds in the presence of such brainwaves. 
    • Authored by Senator Paul Scott 
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. 
      • Room 428
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5522
Bills in Support:
  • HB3872 - This bill would ban conversion therapy for any person under the age of 18. This would make Oklahoma the 20th state to ban conversion therapy for minors. 
    • ​Authored by Rep. Jason Dunnington ​
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 545,1 
      • Phone Number: (405) 557-7396
  • HB2989 - This bill would ensure that all people, regardless of immigration status, will have access to REALID compliant identification documents. 
    • Authored by Rep. Forrest Bennett
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 504,1 
      • Phone Number: (405) 557-7404
  • SB1378 - This bill would repeal certain public notice requirements for people wishing
    to have a change of name.
    • Authored by Sen. Julia Kirt
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 514,2 
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5636
  • HB2867 - This bill would add gender and sexual orientation to state labor discrimination law. There are also additional groups who would also be added to these protections.
    • Authored by Rep. Daniel Pae
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 260,1
      • Phone Number: (405) 557-7374
  • HB3523 - This bill would add sexual orientation to the state hate crime law. We would also like this bill to add gender identity.
    • Authored by Rep. Regina Goodwin
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 503,1
      • Phone Number: (405) 557-7406
  • SB1798 - This bill would remove the words "with mankind" from Oklahoma sodomy law.
    • Authored by Senator Allison Ikley-Freeman
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 524
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5600
  • ​SB1368 - This bill would require that any sex education classes performed in public schools must be approved for medical accuracy by the State Department of Health. 
    • Authored by Senator Allison Ikley-Freeman
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 524
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5600
  • HB3028 - This bill would add language to the Oklahoma Uniform Controlled Substances Act that would allow for syringe service programs to operate. The bill exempts these programs from state paraphernalia laws.
    • Authored by Rep. Carol Bush
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 204,1
      • Phone Number: (405) 557-7359
  • SB1395 - would set the age of consent for health services at age 16 or older. 
    • Authored by Senator Allison Ikley-Freeman
      • Address: 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.  
      • Oklahoma City, OK 73105
      • Room 524
      • Phone Number: (405) 521-5600
​For a full list of bills please see the PDF's below:
Good Bills
Bad Bills

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