SB 388 Oklahoma Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Students; authorizing students enrolled in charter and virtual charter schools to participate in certain extracurricular activities under certain circumstances. Effective date. Emergency.

SB 388 allows students enrolled in charter schools or virtual charter schools to participate in extracurricular activities (like sports or clubs) offered by their resident school district. It requires eligibility to be determined by the district's existing rules and policies, not by the charter school. The bill defines "resident school district" as the public school district where the student lives, as established under Oklahoma law. This change directly affects charter/virtual charter students seeking to join activities at their neighborhood school district. The bill amends Oklahoma Statutes Sections 3-140 and 27-103 to implement this policy.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Mar 6, 2025

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Introduced → Floor (Senate) · 6 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended during Senate floor consideration to clarify eligibility requirements for charter school students participating in extracurricular activities, add new provisions about virtual charter school boundaries and participation restrictions, and correct several section numbering errors. The changes ensure that charter school students can only participate in district extracurricular activities if those activities aren't offered by their charter school and have no course requirements, while also establishing clearer rules for virtual charter school enrollment and state boundaries.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to include specific restrictions on virtual charter school student participation in state activities and clarified geographic boundaries for statewide virtual charter schools.

ELIGIBILITY

Added new eligibility criteria requiring that extracurricular activities not be offered by the charter school and have no associated course requirements

REQUIREMENT

Added provisions restricting virtual charter school students from participating in Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association activities while allowing intramural activities

DEFINITION

Added definition that statewide virtual charter school geographic boundaries are the state borders

TIMELINE

Corrected effective date from July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025 for virtual charter school participation restrictions

TECHNICAL

Removed original page headers and formatting elements from the introduced version

Added committee amendment notation and page headers indicating Senate floor version with bold face denoting committee amendments

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Committee

Mar 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported Do Pass as amended Education committee; CR filed

upper

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

upper

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors