Mississippi HB1416

No public university or college in the State of Mississippi shall spend appropriated funds or any funds derived from bequests, charges, deposits, donations, endowments, fees, grants, gifts, income, receipts, tuition or any other source, to establish, sustain, support or staff a DEI office or to contract, employ, engage or hire an individual to serve as a DEI officer. [...] "DEI office" refers to any division, office, center or other unit of a public university or college or component thereof which is responsible for creating, developing, designing, implementing, organizing, planning, or promoting policies, programming, training, practices, activities and procedures relating to diversity, equity and inclusion.

"Diversity, equity, and inclusion" or "DEI" refers to: [...] (iv) Any effort to promote or promulgate trainings, programming, or activities designed and/or implemented with reference to race, color, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation; and (v) Any effort to promote as the official position of the administration, the college, the university or any administrative unit thereof, a particular, widely contested opinion referencing unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, transgender ideology, microaggressions, group marginalization, anti-racism, systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, nem-pronouns [sic], heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender theory, racial or sexual privilege or any related formulation of these concepts.