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SB780 • 2026

Flag-related offenses; creating felony offense and providing penalties. Effective date.

Flag-related offenses; creating felony offense and providing penalties. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Jett
Last action
2025-03-11
Official status
Coauthored by Representative West (Kevin) (principal House author)
Effective date
Not listed

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Flag-related offenses; creating felony offense and providing penalties. Effective date.

Flag-related offenses; creating felony offense and providing penalties.

What This Bill Does

  • Flag-related offenses; creating felony offense and providing penalties.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 780 (Senate): Introduced (1/15/2025)

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-11 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative West (Kevin) (principal House author)

  2. 2025-02-13 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  3. 2025-02-11 Senate

    Reported Do Pass Public Safety committee; CR filed

  4. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Jett

  6. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Public Safety

Official Summary Text

Flag-related offenses; creating felony offense and providing penalties. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 780 (Senate): Introduced (1/15/2025)

Current Bill Text

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
February 11, 2025

SENATE BILL NO. 780 By: Jett

An Act relating to flag-related offenses; defining
terms; creating felony offense; providing for
penalties; 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 376 of Title 21, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section, the terms “flag”, “standard”,
“colors”, or “ensign” of the United States shall have the same
meaning as used in subsection C of Section 372 of Title 21 of the
Oklahoma Statutes.
B. Any person who takes down or removes the flag, standard,
colors, or ensign of the United States of America on public property
or private property owned by another person or entity without
permission and puts up the flag, standard, colors, or ensign of any
other entity shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony
punishable by a fine not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars
($3,000.00), imprisonment in the custody of the Department of

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Corrections for not more than three (3) years, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
February 11, 2025 - DO PASS