Oklahoma legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Oklahoma SB796: Higher education; prohibiting certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Effective date. Emergency.
Status: Signed into law, May 13, 2025
What the bill says
An Act relating to higher education; prohibiting certain institutions of higher education from using state funds, property, or resources to support or require certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; requiring certain institutions of higher education to initiate certain review after certain date; providing for restructuring or elimination of certain unnecessary functions; providing certain construction; requiring certain institutions to submit certain annual certificate of compliance by certain date; providing for promulgation of rules; providing for codification…
From the enrolled text, May 7, 2025:
An Act relating to higher education; prohibiting certain institutions of higher education from using state funds, property, or resources to support or require certain activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; requiring certain institutions of higher education to initiate certain review after certain date; providing for restructuring or elimination of certain unnecessary functions; providing certain construction; requiring certain institutions to submit certain annual certificate of compliance by certain date; providing for promulgation of rules; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency. SUBJECT: Higher education SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3251 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: A. No institution of higher education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall utilize state funds, property, or resources to: 1. Grant or support diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, departments, activities, procedures, or programs to the extent they grant preferential treatment based on one person's particular race, color, ethnicity, or national origin over another's; 2. Mandate any person to participate in, listen to, or receive any education, training, activities, procedures, or programming to the extent such education, training, activities, procedures, or programming grants preferences based on one person's particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over …