US EditionLocal DEI ban in doubt as bill not heard in Senate committee stop
- Legislative activity regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs is occurring in multiple states, including North Carolina, Kentucky, Iowa and New Hampshire.
- Motivated by arguments that DEI promotes division and unpopularity, some Republican-led states are aiming to eliminate DEI policies and training programs in state agencies, public universities, and local governments.
- These efforts include measures like North Carolina's House Bill 171, which seeks to rid state agencies of DEI policies, Kentucky's House Bills 4 and 424, which ban DEI programs and enact performance reviews, and proposals in New Hampshire and Iowa to defund or prohibit DEI initiatives.
- Timothy Minella stated that Kentucky is joining states across the nation that are recognizing the incompatibility of DEI with the purposes of public universities, while Chuck Hurley told Iowa lawmakers that DEI violates the Christian belief that every human being should be valued, and Skyler Wheeler encourages opponents to continue to defend DEI because it is extremely unpopular.
- The outcome of these legislative efforts remains uncertain, but they have already led to actions such as the University of Kentucky preemptively shutting down its Office for Institutional Diversity and halting DEI training, signaling a potentially significant shift in the landscape of DEI programs in these states.
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Local DEI ban in doubt as bill not heard in Senate committee stop
A bill addressing local diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) rules has been temporarily postponed in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The sponsor, Jacksonville Sen. Clay Yarborough, chairs that committee. And he isn’t sure if the bill (SB 420) has a way to get to the Senate floor, given that it was the final meeting of that panel. “Senate Judiciary had its final meeting yesterday. I’m unsure whether it has a path this Session, but anything is st…
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Iowa Senate subcommittee passes bill to bar DEI offices at state entities, private colleges
An Iowa Senate subcommittee advanced legislation Tuesday to ban DEI offices and officers in certain public and private entities while noting there are proposed changes in the bill still to come. House File 856 would bar state entities, including universities…
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