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An act relating to elections, the official text

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1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 1448            By: Crosswhite Hader

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to elections; mandating disclaimer on

    campaign or election material; providing minimum font

8   size; providing language of disclaimer; clarifying

    campaign or election material; creating a fine per

9   unique mailer; directing the Oklahoma Ethics

    Commission to enforce this section; providing for

10  codification; and providing an effective date.

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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

14  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

15 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 16-200 of Title 26, unless there

16 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

17  A. Any campaign or election material that is not an official

18 government document from a county election board, the State Election

19 Board, or a subdivision of this state sent via mail to voters shall

20 include a disclaimer. The disclaimer shall clarify, in a minimum of

21 size fourteen (14) font, the following:

22  "This piece of mail is not an official government document from

23 the State of Oklahoma or any subdivision of this state."

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1   For purposes of this section, campaign or election material

2 includes mail encouraging voters to apply for an absentee ballot or

3 reminding them of election dates.

4   B. Any person or organization that does not include the

5 disclaimer described in subsection A of this section shall be

6 subject to a one-hundred-dollar fine per mailer campaign, meaning a

7 unique mailer sent to multiple addresses. "Per mailer campaign"

8 shall not mean individual pieces of mail sent. On the third offense

9 of failing to include the disclaimer described in subsection A of

10 this section, the fine shall increase to a three-hundred-dollar fine

11 per mailer campaign.

12  C. The Oklahoma Ethics Commission shall enforce this section

13 and be granted rule-making authority to carry out its provisions.

14  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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16  60-1-11123      MJ   01/15/25

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