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Bills › 89th General Assembly

HF 471Died when the session ended · February 10, 2021

Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair

Topics:Civil rights

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2021
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Iowa would add new protections to prevent people from being treated unfairly because of their natural or protective hairstyles, such as braids, locs, or afros. These rules would apply to schools, workplaces, housing, and places of public business. The change ensures that discrimination based on these hair types is treated the same as discrimination based on race.1

Read the official explanation

This bill provides an additional prohibition against discrimination in schools, workplaces, housing, places of public accommodations, and other contexts on the basis of hair texture, hair type, and natural or protective hairstyles that are historically and commonly associated with race.4 (fair employment practices). §1981(c), based upon the person’s natural or protective hairstyle, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, ancestry, or disability. The bill provides that discrimination on the basis of race includes discrimination on the basis of natural or protective hairstyles. The bill defines “natural or protective hairstyles” to include but is not limited to braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, bantu knots, afros, and headwraps.

Full bill text2

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§216.23

Amends§15A.1§19B.1§216.2§256.2§256B.2§256F.2§261A.4§279.58§280.2§341A.1§400.17§602.1401§729.4§8A.416

How the Code works3

Lobbying

2 for · 0 against · 0 undecided · Who →

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89th General Assembly

HF 471Cleared committee

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SF 318Cleared committee91st GA

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  • SF 318 Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair
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  • HF 2110 Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair
    89th General Assembly · In committee
    Nearly identical

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