Prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions

Where it is now

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   Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
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   Done: House committeeFebruary 27, 2025
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   Done: Passes the HouseMarch 18, 202561–37
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   Done: Senate committeeApril 7, 2025
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   Done: Passes the SenateMay 9, 202534–16
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   Done: To the GovernorMay 22, 2025
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   Done: Signed into lawMay 27, 2025

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Amendments · 5

3 adopted · 0 failed · 1 never voted on. Newest first.

• H-1298 · filed May 12, 2025 by

  AI summary This amendment changes the language used to describe prohibited activities from "with reference to" to "to encourage preferential treatment of or provide special benefits to individuals on the basis of." It also replaces the phrase "particular, widely contested opinion" with "policy, program, training, practice, activity, or procedure" and removes the part of the bill that allows private individuals to sue. Finally, it removes private educational institutions from the bill's title.
  Never voted on
• S-3149 · filed May 9, 2025 by Sen. Ken Rozenboom (R)

  AI summary This amendment changes the wording used to describe the prohibited activities from "with reference to" to "to encourage preferential treatment of or provide special benefits to individuals on the basis of." It also replaces the phrase "particular, widely contested opinion" with "policy, program, training, practice, activity, or procedure."
  Adopted
  May 9, 2025
• S-3073 · filed April 7, 2025 by

  AI summary This amendment removes the part of the bill that allows private educational institutions to be sued for violating these rules.
  Adopted
  May 9, 2025
• H-1094 · filed March 17, 2025 by

  AI summary This amendment expands the bill to prohibit private higher education institutions from establishing or staffing diversity, equity, and inclusion offices. It also updates the definition of diversity, equity, and inclusion to include gender identity and sexual orientation, and creates a process for reporting violations and penalizing non-compliant private institutions by making them ineligible for tuition grants.
  Adopted
  61–37
  March 18, 2025
• H-1087 · filed March 13, 2025 by

  AI summary This amendment expands the bill to include community colleges and private institutions of higher education in the ban on establishing or staffing diversity, equity, and inclusion offices. It also adds a process for reporting violations by private institutions to the attorney general and makes those institutions ineligible for certain tuition grants if they do not comply.
  Withdrawn
  March 18, 2025