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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1536 By: Bergstrom
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to state government; defining terms;
authorizing the Attorney General to investigate
certain entities for certain solicitations; requiring
the Attorney General to establish certain guidelines;
requiring district attorney collaboration under
certain circumstances; requiring the Attorney General
to notify the Governor upon certain designation;
prohibiting designated terrorist support entities
from receiving state funds; requiring the Attorney
General to submit certain report; requiring the
Department of Public Safety to provide certain
educational module; requiring peace officers to
complete certain educational module; making
appropriations; providing for codification; providing
an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
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 221 of Title 74, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. “Entity” means any person, association, corporation, or
other organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated,
operating within this state;
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2. “Foreign terrorist organization” means an organization
currently designated by the United States Secretary of State
pursuant to 8 U.S.C., Section 1189;
3. “Material support or resources” has the same meaning as in
18 U.S.C., Section 2339A(b) and includes, but is not limited to,
currency, financial services, training, expert advice or assistance,
or any tangible or intangible property or service provided in
coordination with or under the direction or control of a foreign
terrorist organization; and
4. “Muslim Brotherhood” means the organization founded in Egypt
in 1928, its global network, and any successor or splinter entities
that adhere to its ideology and strategic goals. A domestic
reference point is the Department of Justice’s list of two hundred
forty-six unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation
criminal case.
B. 1. When the Attorney General has reasonable cause to
believe an entity is engaged in fraudulent charitable solicitation
that benefits a foreign terrorist organization, is providing
material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization,
is misrepresenting the nature of its relationship with or support
for the unlawful activities of the foreign terrorist organization,
or is encouraging violence, the Attorney General may exercise all
existing civil investigative powers, including civil investigative
demands under state consumer-protection and false-claims statutes.
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2. Such investigations can include examination of financial
records, communications, foreign funding sources, ties to foreign
terrorist organizations and other international extremist networks,
and any other evidence relevant to determining potential consumer
fraud committed by misrepresentation of the organization’s true
purposes and activities.
3. The Attorney General shall have all existing statutory
powers of investigation, including civil investigative demands and
subpoena power, and is further authorized to employ advanced
investigative tools, forensic accounting, data analytics, and open-
source intelligence tools necessary to identify concealed
connections and funding streams, provided there is reasonable
suspicion of illicit activity.
4. The Attorney General shall have the power to investigate
entity directors who directed, approved, or otherwise were complicit
in fraudulent activities, as well as assess fines and other
penalties on directors who fail to comply with subpoena requests.
5. The Attorney General shall establish clear internal
guidelines governing the scope and duration of such investigations
which shall be conducted in full compliance with state and federal
law and in coordination with the Governor’s office as necessary.
6. District attorneys shall, whenever appropriate based on
reasonable findings, collaborate with the Attorney General in
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initiating formal criminal investigations and pursue their own
criminal proceedings when relevant under state law.
7. The Attorney General shall ensure that the state’s
mechanisms for reporting consumer fraud include appropriate
protections for whistleblowers.
C. 1. After investigation, if the Attorney General believes an
entity has knowingly provided material support to a foreign
terrorist organization, encouraged violence, or engaged in a pattern
of misrepresentation, deceit, or fraudulent solicitation to the
detriment of public consumers and the benefit of a foreign terrorist
organization, the Attorney General shall formally notify the
Governor that the entity is a Designated Terrorist Support Entity,
publish the notice on the Attorney General’s website, and transmit
the notice to all state agencies.
2. The Attorney General may also file a civil action, pursuant
to the state’s consumer fraud protection statutes, seeking an
injunction to shut down the fraudulent solicitation or deceptive
charity, and seeking restitution and civil penalties when
appropriate.
3. The Designated Terrorist Support Entity shall be denied all
state funds provided by any state agency beginning with the state
fiscal year that starts after the date on which a final judicial
determination has been issued in the action brought by the Attorney
General pursuant to paragraph 2 of this subsection. No public
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university, community college, school district, or other recipient
of state funds shall, after the date of the final judicial
determination, knowingly provide any grant, contract, loan, tax
credit, tax exemption, or other state financial benefit to a
Designated Terrorist Support Entity.
4. The Attorney General shall alert all state agencies and
offices about the designation made pursuant to paragraph 1 of this
subsection, to help protect public consumers and prevent official
collaboration with an organization believed to be committing
consumer fraud or supporting illicit activities.
5. This section does not prohibit transactions necessary to
comply with federal law or court order, nor does it prohibit purely
expressive activities protected by the First Amendment to the United
States Constitution.
D. On or before December 31 of each year, the Attorney General
shall electronically submit to the Governor and Legislature a public
report summarizing investigations conducted, designations issued,
judicial actions filed, and amounts of fraudulently solicited funds
recovered or prevented. The report shall redact information that
would compromise ongoing investigations.
E. 1. The Department of Public Safety, in consultation with
the Attorney General and the Governor, shall provide an educational
module on foreign terrorist organizations, including Muslim
Brotherhood networks, and how they exploit America’s open society,
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particularly tax-exempt charitable privileges, to fundraise and
encourage violence. The module shall train law enforcement to
recognize and investigate such behavior, and draw upon relevant
federal statutes and case law.
2. Every certified peace officer and reserve peace officer in
the state, under the authority of the Attorney General and the
Governor, shall complete this training module at least once every
three (3) years as part of the Council on Law Enforcement Education
and Training’s continuing education requirements. Those who receive
training shall include officers serving schools and universities as
well as corrections officers and sheriffs.
SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Office of the
Attorney General from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 2027, the sum of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00)
or so much thereof as may be necessary to perform the duties imposed
upon the Office of the Attorney General by law.
SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated to the Office of the
Governor from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the General
Revenue Fund of the State Treasury for the fiscal year ending June
30, 2027, the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to perform the
duties imposed upon the Office of the Governor by law.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 2026.
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SECTION 5. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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