Standardized Tests for Admission to Medical Institutions of Higher Education
Requires medical institutions of higher education to have standardized admissions test focused on specified knowledge & skills.
2025 Regular Session
A state agency may not expend appropriated funds or otherwise expend any funds [...] to establish, sustain, support, or staff a DEI office or [...] hire a person to serve as a DEI officer.
"Diversity, equity, and inclusion" or "DEI" means: [...] d. Any effort to promote or adopt training, programming, or activities designed or implemented with reference to [...] gender identity, or sexual orientation. [...] e. Any effort to promote [...] a particular opinion referencing [...] allyship, transgender ideology, [...] social justice, intersectionality, neopronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender theory, [...] or any related formulation of these concepts.
All health care providers and medical institutions of higher education must certify [...] that they do not and will not require their employees, contractors, volunteers, vendors, or agents to ascribe to, study, or be instructed with diversity, equity, and inclusion material using state funds.
date | time | type | location | description |
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2025-03-25 | 12:00 | Hearing | N/A | House Government Operations Subcommittee Hearing |
History
Date | Action |
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2025-03-27 | Referred to Education & Employment Committee |
2025-03-27 | Now in Education & Employment Committee |
2025-03-26 | Reported out of Government Operations Subcommittee |
2025-03-26 | Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) |
2025-03-26 | CS Filed |
2025-03-26 | 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) |
2025-03-25 | Favorable with CS by Government Operations Subcommittee |
2025-03-21 | PCS added to Government Operations Subcommittee agenda |
2025-03-04 | 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) |
2025-02-26 | Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee |
2025-02-26 | Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee |
2025-02-26 | Referred to Education & Employment Committee |
2025-02-26 | Referred to State Affairs Committee |
2025-02-26 | Now in Government Operations Subcommittee |
2025-02-19 | Filed |