Prohibitions and Limitations on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Requirements for Medical Institutions of Higher Education
Providing requirements for state agencies applying for certain federal health care-related grants; prohibiting state agencies from expending certain funds for a diversity, equity, and inclusion office or officer; requiring potential recipients of state contracts or grants to provide a specified certification to the Chief Financial Officer, etc.
2025 Regular Session
“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 unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, transgender ideology, [...] systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, neopronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender theory, racial or sexual privilege, or any related formulation of these concepts.
A state agency may not expend appropriated funds [...] or any other source to establish, sustain, support, or staff a DEI office or to contract, employ, engage, or hire a person to serve as a DEI officer.
All potential recipients for a state contract or grant must certify [...] that the recipient does not and will not require its 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-18 | 15:30 | Hearing | 110 Senate Building | Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Hearing |
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-03-19 | Now in Education Postsecondary |
| 2025-03-18 | Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 2 |
| 2025-03-13 | On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building |
| 2025-03-10 | Introduced |
| 2025-03-07 | Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Education Postsecondary; Appropriations |
| 2025-02-28 | Filed |