Oklahoma lawmakers have introduced a bill that would empower parents to demand the removal of sexually explicit books from school libraries and would penalize school employees who stand in their way.

Fox News reported that Senate Bill 1142 would allow parents to request any book with sexually explicit material to be removed from shelves if “‘a reasonable parent or legal guardian’ would want to approve of it before their child reads it.”

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If the request is not honored after 30 days, the bill would require the employee who refused to remove the book to be fired and barred from employment by the school for two years.

The legislative proposal comes amid a nationwide controversy over school library books, as parents across the country have objected to the presence of sexually explicit books in public schools.

Oklahoma state Sen. Rob Standridge, in an interview with the McAlester News-Capital, said he expected the issue would end up in court because “schools won’t comply and the parents will have to seek injunctive relief.”

The state lawmaker told the Oklahoma news outlet that if parents want their children exposed to sexually explicit books, “they can take (their children) to their local library.”

Among the most controversial books are the graphic novel Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, both of which depict sexual conduct between gay characters.

In Fairfax, Virginia, a mother objected to the presence of the books in her son’s public high school during a September school board meeting and was cut off from speaking as she was reading from the books for violating the board’s rules on obscenity.

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The books were removed from the shelves and reviewed by a committee, which subsequently restored them and expressed its commitment to “provide diverse reading materials that reflect our student population.”