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. _____ any effort by a county or city to promote or promulgate trainings, programming, or activities designed or implemented with reference to 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, a particular, widely contested opinion 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. 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.