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Nebraska LB552

EDUCATIONINTRODUCED

Prohibit public postsecondary educational institutions from having a diversity, equity, and inclusion office and taking certain actions relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Legislative Session

active

109th Legislature

Selected quotes

A public postsecondary educational institution shall not [...] (a) Establish or maintain a diversity, equity, and inclusion office; (b) Hire or assign an employee of the institution or contract with a third party to perform the duties of a diversity, equity, and inclusion office; (c) Compel, require, induce, or solicit any person to provide a statement related to diversity, equity, and inclusion [...] (e) Require as a condition of enrolling at the public postsecondary educational institution or performing any function of such institution, any person to participate in a diversity, equity, and inclusion program; or (f) Spend public money on a diversity, equity, and inclusion program or office.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion program means a program that requires an employee of a public postsecondary educational institution to participate in or attend a training, orientation, workshop, therapy session, or similar activity that focuses on any of the following: [...] (iv) Advancing theories of unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, transgenderism, [...] neopronouns, inclusive language, heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender identity or theory, racial or sexual privilege, or any concept substantially related to any of these theories;

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History

DateAction
2025-01-24Referred to Education Committee
2025-01-22Date of introduction