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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1945 By: McCane
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to landlord and tenant; requiring
background checks for employees; providing who may
perform the background check; providing for
disqualification from employment for certain crimes;
requiring a landlord, owner, or operator of an
apartment or hotel to require that each employee
undergo background screening as a condition of
employment, maintain a log accounting for the issuance
and return of all keys, and establish policies and
procedures for the issuance and return of dwelling
unit keys and regulating the storage and access to
unissued keys; prohibiting hourly rates for a hotel
accommodation; providing an exemption; 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 to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 141 of Title 41, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The landlord, owner, or operator of a public lodging
establishment, which shall include apartments and hotels, must
require that each employee of the establishment undergo a background
screening as a condition of employment.
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B. The background screening required under subsection A of this
section must be performed by a consumer reporting agency in
accordance with the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, and must
include a screening of criminal history records and sexual predator
and sexual offender registries of all 50 states and the District of
Columbia.
C. A landlord, owner, or operator of an apartment or hotel may
disqualify a person from employment if the person has been convicted
or found guilty of, or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere
to, regardless of adjudication, any of the following offenses:
1. A criminal offense involving disregard for the safety of
others which, if committed in this state, is a felony or a
misdemeanor of the first degree or, if committed in another state,
would be a felony or a misdemeanor of the first degree if committed
in this state.
2. A criminal offense committed in any jurisdiction which
involves violence, including, but not limited to, murder, sexual
battery, robbery, carjacking, home-invasion robbery, and stalking.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 142 of Title 41, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A landlord, owner, or operator of an apartment or hotel, shall do
all of the following:
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1. Require that each employee undergo background screening as a
condition of employment;
2. Maintain a log accounting for the issuance and return of all
keys for each dwelling unit; and
3. Establish policies and procedures for the issuance and return
of dwelling unit keys and regulating the storage of, and access to,
unissued keys.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 143 of Title 41, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Operators of a hotel may not offer an hourly rate for an
accommodation.
B. This section does not apply to an hourly rate charged by an
operator of a hotel as a late checkout fee.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-11097 JL 12/11/24