Restricting county and city diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

This bill prohibits a county, a city, or any county or city board or office from adopting an ordinance, motion, resolution, amendment, or policy, except as otherwise provided by federal or state law, that does any of the following: establishes or maintains a diversity, equity, and inclusion office; hires or assigns an employee or contracts with a third party to perform duties of a diversity, equity, or inclusion office; or compels, requires, induces, or solicits any person to provide a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement, or gives preferential consideration to any person based on the provisions of a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement. The bill provides that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” includes: any effort to manipulate or otherwise influence the composition of a county board of supervisors, a city council, any county or city board or office, or county or city employee positions with reference to race, sex, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation, apart from ensuring colorblind and sex-neutral hiring in accordance with state and federal antidiscrimination laws; any effort by a county or city to promote differential treatment of or provide special benefits to individuals on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation; any effort by a county or city to promote or promulgate policies and procedures designed or implemented to encourage differential treatment or provide special benefits to individuals on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation; any effort by a county or city to promote or promulgate trainings, programming, or activities designed or implemented to encourage differential treatment or provide special benefits to individuals on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation; and any effort by a county or city to promote, as the official position of the city, policies, programs, trainings, practices, activities, or procedures referencing unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, transgender ideology, microaggressions, group marginalization, antiracism, systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, neopronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender theory, racial privilege, sexual privilege, or any related formulation of these concepts. These prohibitions shall not be construed to prohibit trainings, programming, or activities consistent with de-escalation techniques and prevention of bias. The bill provides that “diversity, equity, and inclusion office” means any division, office, center, or other unit of county or city government that is responsible for creating, developing, designing, implementing, organizing, planning, or promoting policies, programming, training, practices, activities, or procedures related to diversity, equity, and inclusion., as amended, the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. 88-352, as amended, or any other applicable federal or state law or a court order.