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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1495 By: Alvord
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; creating the Age-
Appropriate Materials Act; providing short title;
stating legislative findings; defining terms;
prohibiting public school districts and charter
schools from purchasing, housing, distributing, or
making available certain materials to students;
requiring adoption of policies to ensure certain
compliance; requiring school districts and charter
schools to audit certain materials and resources by
certain date annually and remove certain materials
and resources; requiring maintenance of certain
inventory; directing the State Board of Education, in
certain collaboration, to develop and adopt certain
standards; requiring the standards to include certain
provisions; allowing certain board of education or
governing body to adopt more restrictive policies;
establishing process for submission and consideration
of a formal challenge regarding violations of
standards; 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 11-200 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Age-
Appropriate Materials Act”.
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B. The Legislature finds that:
1. Public schools exist to provide a safe learning environment
for children;
2. No child should be exposed to sexually explicit, profane, or
indecent content;
3. Public school administrators, educators, and employees
entrusted with the care of children must be held accountable for
knowingly allowing sexually explicit, profane, or indecent content
to be housed, distributed, or made accessible to students; and
4. The provisions of this act are necessary to protect the
health, safety, and morals of students in this state.
C. As used in this section:
1. “Harmful to minors” has the same meaning as provided in
Section 1040.75 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
2. “Library” means a school library or media program, a
classroom library, or any other collection of books or other print
or digital materials that are maintained by a school district or its
employees for use by students and that do not qualify as textbooks
under the authority of the State Textbook Committee;
3. “Nudity” has the same meaning as provided in Section 1040.75
of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
4. “Obscene” has the same meaning as provided in Section 1024.1
of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
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5. “Sexual conduct” means sexual contact, actual or simulated
sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, rape, sexual
bestiality, masturbation, sado-masochistic abuse, incest,
molestation, necrophilia, or lewd exhibition of the genitals, anus,
or any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola; and
6. “Sexually explicit content” means any communication,
language, or material including a written description, illustration,
photographic image, video image, or audio file that describes,
depicts, or portrays sexual conduct, actual or simulated sexual
intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, rape, sexual bestiality,
masturbation, sado-masochistic abuse, incest, molestation,
necrophilia, or lewd exhibition of the genitals, anus, or any
portion of the female breast below the top of the areola.
D. No public school district or public charter school in this
state shall purchase, house, approve, distribute, or make available
to students any print or nonprint materials or multimedia resources
containing or depicting obscene material, sexual conduct, sexually
explicit content, nudity, or material that is harmful to minors.
E. The board of education of each public school district and
the governing body of each public charter school shall adopt
policies to ensure compliance with the provisions of this act
including, but not limited to, policies that:
1. Provide for the identification and removal of any print or
nonprint materials or multimedia resources currently housed,
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displayed, or accessible to students that contain or depict obscene
material, sexual conduct, sexually explicit content, nudity, or
material that is harmful to minors no later than March 1, 2027;
2. Establish procedures to review existing print and nonprint
library materials, multimedia resources, and classroom library
materials prior to acquisition of new materials to prevent the
inclusion of material containing or depicting obscene material,
sexual conduct, sexually explicit content, nudity, or material that
is harmful to minors; and
3. Provide for the maintenance of documentation showing
compliance with the provisions of this act, which shall be made
available to the State Department of Education upon request.
F. By August 15 each year, each public school district and
public charter school in this state shall audit print and nonprint
materials and multimedia resources located in a school library,
classroom library, or elsewhere on the premises of the school
district or charter school and remove any material or resource
containing or depicting obscene material, sexual conduct, sexually
explicit content, nudity, or material that is harmful to minors.
Beginning September 8, 2027, each school district and charter school
shall maintain and make available for public inspection an inventory
of all print and nonprint materials and multimedia resources located
in a school library, classroom library, or elsewhere on the premises
of the school district or charter school.
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SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 11-200.1 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The State Board of Education, in collaboration with the
Oklahoma Department of Libraries, shall develop and adopt standards
for public school district and public charter school library media
programs. The standards shall govern the acquisition, cataloging,
display, and availability of print and nonprint materials and
multimedia resources and shall include:
1. A requirement that a school district or charter school
library media specialist or librarian review the standards upon
hiring; and
2. A library collection policy that:
a. prohibits the possession, acquisition, display, or
purchase of print and nonprint materials and
multimedia resources that:
(1) contain or depict obscene material, sexual
conduct, sexually explicit content, nudity, or
material that is harmful to minors, and
(2) refers a person, by printed or digital means, to
a website containing or depicting obscene
material, sexual conduct, nudity, or material
that is harmful to minors,
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b. recognizes that obscene material is not protected
under the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution,
c. applies to all library materials available for use or
display including, but not limited to, print and
nonprint materials and multimedia resources contained
in school libraries, classroom libraries, classroom
reading collections, electronic catalogs, mobile
library applications, and any other platform
accessible to students,
d. requires school districts and charter schools to
provide an online library catalog that is accessible
to the general public, and
e. except as provided for in subsection C of this
section, prohibits the removal of a print or nonprint
material or multimedia resource based solely on:
(1) the viewpoint or ideas contained in the material
or resource, or
(2) the personal background or characteristics of the
author or characters within the material or
resource.
B. The board of education of a public school district or the
governing body of a public charter school may adopt policies that
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are more restrictive than the standards adopted pursuant to
subsection A of this section.
C. 1. The parent or legal guardian of a student enrolled in a
public school district or public charter school, a resident of a
public school district or a public school district served by a
public charter school, or a taxpayer in this state may submit a
formal challenge regarding suspected violations of the standards
adopted pursuant to subsection A of this section.
2. A formal challenge shall be submitted to the principal of
the school site in which the challenged material or resource is
located. Upon receipt of a formal challenge, the principal shall
immediately remove the material or resource from school premises.
The principal shall notify the superintendent of the school district
or charter school of the challenge and removal within three (3)
business days.
3. The superintendent of the school district or charter school
shall:
a. permanently remove the material or resource if it is
deemed to contain or depict obscene material, sexual
conduct, sexually explicit content, nudity, or
material that is harmful to minors. The
superintendent shall notify the board of education of
the school district or the governing body of the
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charter school within one (1) business day of
permanently removing the material or resource, or
b. deny the formal challenge and notify the board of
education of the school district or the governing body
of the charter school within one (1) business day of
such denial.
4. If the superintendent of the school district or charter
school denies the formal challenge, the board of education of the
school district or the governing body of the charter school shall
hold a public meeting within thirty (30) business days of issuance
of the denial to determine whether to uphold or overturn the denial.
Notice of the public meeting shall be posted five (5) days in
advance of the meeting. The meeting shall allow a minimum of forty-
five (45) minutes for public comment.
5. If the board of education of a school district or the
governing body of a charter school upholds a denial of a formal
challenge pursuant to paragraph 4 of this subsection, a person
aggrieved by such decision may bring a civil action against the
school district or charter school to recover such relief as may be
appropriate.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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