Oklahoma
Entries where the acting authority was Oklahoma (OK), whatever state or country the events took place in.
Jurisdiction is who acted, not where it happened. Federal conduct inside Oklahoma is filed under Federal, not here.
Institutions seated here (2)
Bodies whose own seat of authority is Oklahoma. They appear in entries under other jurisdictions too — an institution acts outside its own seat constantly — so this is not the same set as the entries below.
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Oklahoma House of Representatives 3 entries
The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Oklahoma Legislature.
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Oklahoma Legislature 15 entries
The Oklahoma Legislature is the state's bicameral legislature, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
2026 Events (6)
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt ordered state probe of CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood over unsubstantiated terrorism ties; urged federal terrorist designation
On August 12, 2026, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Executive Order 2026-29 directing the state Department of Public Safety and Office of Homeland Security to conduct an intelligence-based assessment of whether the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood pose terrorism threats in Oklahoma, and to advocate for federal designation of both as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. CAIR Oklahoma said the order relied on "debunked conspiracy theories," and University of Michigan political scientist Pauline Jones said no evidence ties CAIR to terrorism and called the order "political theater." Stitt is the third Republican governor in 2026 to order this kind of investigation into CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, following two earlier actions by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB904 barring Medicaid and public funds for gender-transition procedures
On May 12, 2026, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 904, prohibiting the state Medicaid program from reimbursing gender-transition procedures and barring the use of any public funds, state property, or state facilities for such procedures for transgender residents of any age. The law carries an emergency clause taking effect immediately on signing and creates a criminal penalty for violations. It cleared the state Senate 39-8 in March 2026 and the House 77-14 in May before reaching the governor's desk.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed HB 3586 shielding refusal to affirm a child's gender transition in adoption and foster placements
On May 7, 2026, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 3586, the "Parents Protection Act of 2026," which bars the state from denying or delaying an adoption or foster placement because a prospective parent declines to support a child's gender transition, and provides that raising a child consistent with their biological sex does not constitute child abuse or neglect. The measure amends the Oklahoma Children's Code and adoption statutes and takes effect November 1, 2026.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed HB 1225 requiring birth certificates to list sex assigned at birth and barring gender-identity amendments
On May 7, 2026, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 1225, which requires state birth certificates to record a person's biological sex as male or female as identified at birth and prohibits amending that designation to reflect gender identity, a nonbinary status, or an "X" marker. The law amends Oklahoma's vital-records statutes governing birth-certificate filing, amendments, and post-adoption certificates, and carried an emergency clause making it effective on approval.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed HJR1032, repealing the only rule letting transgender residents change the sex marker on state IDs
On March 3, 2026, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt approved House Joint Resolution 1032, which repealed the Service Oklahoma administrative rules that had allowed residents to change the sex marker on their driver's licenses and state identification cards. The prior rules required a court order and a notarized physician's statement; their repeal eliminates the only administrative pathway for transgender Oklahomans to correct the sex designation on state ID. Licenses already amended before the repeal remain valid, but no further changes will be processed.
Mustang, Oklahoma school district suspended 122 students for ICE-protest walkout, harsher than peer districts' response
On Feb. 5, 2026, Mustang Public Schools in Oklahoma gave in-school suspensions to 122 students who participated in a walkout protesting ICE's mass-deportation enforcement, imposing the harshest of the truancy penalties its discipline manual allows rather than the lighter options the same policy also permits. Gov. Kevin Stitt publicly praised Superintendent Charles Bradley by name for the suspensions, and Republican state lawmakers separately pushed for participating students' teachers to lose their licenses, though state and district review found no evidence school staff organized the protest. Other Oklahoma districts responding to the same wave of ICE-protest walkouts imposed markedly lighter discipline — marking absences or issuing warnings rather than suspension.
2025 Events (4)
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB796 banning state funds for DEI programs at public universities
On May 14, 2025, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 796, barring the use of state funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, offices, and programs at the state's public colleges and universities. The law also prohibits institutions from requiring diversity statements in admissions or hiring, from mandating the disclosure of a person's pronouns, and from requiring DEI-related training. It took effect July 1, 2025, with a compliance deadline of July 1, 2026.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed SB418 mandating birth-sex segregation of prison facilities and barring transgender inmates from opposite-sex housing
On May 13, 2025, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 418, requiring the Department of Corrections and its contracted facilities to designate every multi-occupancy restroom, changing room, and sleeping quarter for the exclusive use of either males or females and barring incarcerated people from facilities designated for the opposite sex, with narrow exceptions for staff, medical, law-enforcement, and emergency access. The law creates a private cause of action, with attorney fees, for individuals who encounter an opposite-sex person in a designated facility. It took effect November 1, 2025.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB658 barring denial of foster or adoptive applicants over beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity
On May 13, 2025, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 658, which bars the Oklahoma Department of Human Services from denying a prospective foster or adoptive parent on the basis of the applicant's religious or moral beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity, and prohibits DHS from requiring applicants to affirm state positions on those subjects as a condition of approval. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Julie Daniels, took effect November 1, 2025. Advocates for LGBTQ youth warned that it legitimizes belief-based refusal to support affirming placements within the state child-welfare system.
Oklahoma House adopted a chamber rule restricting a women's restroom to people 'born as a biological female'
On January 7, 2025, the Oklahoma House of Representatives adopted its chamber rules for the 2025-26 legislature (HR1002), including a provision restricting a women's restroom near the House floor to "a person born as a biological female." Sponsor Rep. Molly Jenkins described the rule as precautionary against transgender women using the restroom, echoing Congress's recent restriction on transgender women using certain U.S. Capitol restrooms. A violation can result in censure, including the loss of a member's voting rights on legislation.
2024 Events (1)
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed HB 1449, writing a binary biological-sex definition into state law and excluding gender identity from recognition
On May 31, 2024, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 1449, the "Women's Bill of Rights," enacted by the Oklahoma Legislature. The law writes binary definitions of "sex," "male," and "female" into Oklahoma statute based strictly on reproductive biology at birth and excludes gender identity from legal recognition of sex, with the stated purpose of restricting sex-segregated spaces to a person's biological sex. It took effect November 1, 2024.
2023 Events (2)
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB26, adding funding-cut and civil-liability penalties to the school transgender bathroom ban
On May 25, 2023, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 26 into law, amending the state's 2022 school-facilities law (SB615) to define "sex" by original birth certificate and add new enforcement mechanisms. The law authorizes a 5% cut in state funding for a noncompliant public school district or charter school and creates a private cause of action allowing a parent or guardian to sue a district over noncompliance. SB26 passed the Senate 46-0 and the House 86-0 before Stitt approved it with an emergency clause and a July 1, 2023 effective date.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB613, banning gender-affirming medical care for minors
On May 1, 2023, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed SB 613 into law, banning gender-transition surgeries, puberty-blocking medication, and hormone therapy for anyone under 18 and making a violation a felony for health care providers, alongside license revocation and civil liability. The bill carried an emergency clause and took effect immediately on signing, with a limited allowance for minors already receiving treatment to be tapered off. It passed the Oklahoma Legislature 40-8 in the Senate and 73-18 in the House.
2022 Events (4)
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB3XX, cutting ARPA hospital funding tied to gender-affirming care for minors
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 3XX on October 4, 2022, appropriating $39.4 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to the University Hospitals Authority while barring their use at any facility providing gender-transition medical treatment to patients under 18. Facing the funding cutoff, OU Health's Oklahoma Children's Hospital announced it would stop providing gender-affirming care to minors.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB 615, requiring K-12 students to use restrooms matching birth-certificate sex
On May 25, 2022, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed SB 615, requiring every public school and public charter school serving pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade to designate multiple-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms for the exclusive use of one sex as listed on a student's original birth certificate. A noncompliant student is limited to a single-occupancy facility, and a noncompliant district faces a 5% state funding cut. Three transgender students later sued to block the law; a federal judge dismissed the suit, and the dismissal remains on appeal.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB 1100, barring nonbinary sex designations on birth certificates
On April 26, 2022, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 1100, amending the state's vital-records statutes to require that the biological sex designation on a birth certificate be either male or female and expressly prohibiting a nonbinary designation or any symbol representing one, including "X." The bill carried an emergency clause and took effect immediately, reversing a nonbinary-marker option the Oklahoma State Department of Health had begun permitting the prior year under a lawsuit settlement.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB 2, barring transgender girls from female school sports statewide
On March 30, 2022, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed SB 2, the "Save Women's Sports Act," requiring K-12 and college athletic teams sponsored by public schools or the state higher-education system to be designated by biological sex at birth and barring transgender girls and women from female-designated teams. The law carried an emergency clause and took effect immediately.
2018 Events (1)
Oklahoma Gov. Fallin signed SB 1140, shielding religious-exemption foster and adoption agencies
On May 11, 2018, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed Senate Bill 1140, allowing private, state-licensed child-placement agencies to decline foster-care or adoption placements, counseling, or referrals that conflict with the agency's written religious or moral convictions. The bill passed the Senate 33-7 and the House 56-21 before Fallin's signature. LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, including Oklahomans for Equality and the ACLU of Oklahoma, said the law licenses agencies to turn away qualified prospective parents.
2004 Events (2)
Oklahoma enacted HB 1821, barring joint adoption by same-sex couples and blocking recognition of their out-of-state adoptions
On May 3, 2004, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed HB 1821, amending the state's Adoption Code to prohibit joint or second-parent adoption by more than one individual of the same sex and to require registration and judicial review of out-of-state adoption decrees, effectively barring Oklahoma from recognizing same-sex couple adoptions granted in other states. The bill passed the Oklahoma House 94-0 and the Oklahoma Senate 44-0 before reaching the governor, and took immediate effect under an emergency clause.
Oklahoma Legislature referred HB2259, a constitutional same-sex marriage ban, to voters
The Oklahoma State Senate passed HB2259 38-7 on April 15, 2004, and the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted 92-4 to concur on April 22, 2004, completing the Legislature's referral of State Question 711 — a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman only — to Oklahoma voters. The amendment barred recognition of any same-sex marriage performed in another jurisdiction and made it a misdemeanor to knowingly issue a marriage license in violation. Oklahoma voters approved SQ711 by approximately 76 percent on November 2, 2004.