Limitations on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Limitations on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Establishes prohibitions and requirements on state agencies, recipients of state contracts or grants, state educational institutions, and health profession licensing boards regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Provides that certain civil actions for noncompliance may be filed against a state educational institution. Establishes: (1) requirements regarding a standardized admissions test; and (2) requirements regarding altering academic standards; for postsecondary educational institutions that offer certain health education programs.
2025 Regular Session
A state educational institution may not establish, support, sustain, or employ an office or individual whose primary duties include coordinating, creating, developing, designing, implementing, organizing, planning, or promoting noncredit earning diversity programming that includes DEI.
Sec. 2. (a) As used in this chapter, "diversity, equity, and inclusion" or "DEI" means any effort to do any of the following: [...] (5) Promote as the official position of an agency a particular opinion referencing unconscious or implicit: (A) bias; (B) cultural appropriation; (C) allyship; (D) transgender ideology; (E) microaggressions; (F) group marginalization; (G) antiracism; (H) systemic oppression; (I) social justice; (J) intersectionality; (K) neopronouns; (L) heteronormativity; (M) disparate impact; (N) gender theory; (O) racial or sexual privilege; or (P) any related form
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-01-08 | First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development |
| 2025-01-08 | Authored by Senator Johnson T |