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US HR8191
CROWN Act of 2024 Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2024

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Introduced
04/30/2024
In Committee
04/30/2024
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
01/03/2025

Introduced Session

118th Congress

Bill Summary

A BILL To prohibit discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair.

AI Summary

This bill, the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2024 (CROWN Act of 2024), aims to prohibit discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Prohibiting discrimination in federally-assisted programs, housing programs, public accommodations, employment, and equal rights under the law based on an individual's hair texture or hairstyle that is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin, such as hairstyles like tightly coiled or curly hair, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros. 2. Enforcing these anti-discrimination provisions through the same mechanisms and jurisdictions as existing civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, and Section 1977 of the Revised Statutes. 3. Providing definitions of race and national origin that recognize discrimination based on hair texture and hairstyle as a form of racial and national origin discrimination. 4. Establishing that the bill should not be construed to limit the existing definitions of race or national origin under the referenced civil rights laws. The purpose of the bill is to address the widespread instances of race and national origin discrimination that have occurred based on hair texture and hairstyle, and to provide clear and comprehensive legal standards to address this type of discrimination.

Committee Categories

Justice

Sponsors (89)

Bonnie Watson Coleman (D)*,  Alma Adams (D),  Colin Allred (D),  Gabe Amo (D),  Joyce Beatty (D),  Sanford Bishop (D),  Lisa Blunt Rochester (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Jamaal Bowman (D),  Shontel Brown (D),  Cori Bush (D),  Tony Cárdenas (D),  André Carson (D),  Troy Carter (D),  Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D),  Katherine Clark (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Emanuel Cleaver (D),  Jim Clyburn (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Jasmine Crockett (D),  Danny Davis (D),  Don Davis (D),  Lloyd Doggett (D),  Veronica Escobar (D),  Adriano Espaillat (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Bill Foster (D),  Valerie Foushee (D),  Maxwell Frost (D),  Robert Garcia (D),  Sylvia Garcia (D),  Chuy García (D),  Dan Goldman (D),  Al Green (D),  Jahana Hayes (D),  Steven Horsford (D),  Glenn Ivey (D),  Jonathan Jackson (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Sara Jacobs (D),  Hakeem Jeffries (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D),  Robin Kelly (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Greg Landsman (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Summer Lee (D),  Lucy McBath (D),  Jenn McClellan (D),  Morgan McGarvey (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Gregory Meeks (D),  Kweisi Mfume (D),  Kevin Mullin (D),  Joe Neguse (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Ilhan Omar (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Stacey Plaskett (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  Mike Quigley (D),  Delia Ramirez (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Adam Schiff (D),  Bobby Scott (D),  David Scott (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Mikie Sherrill (D),  Adam Smith (D),  Greg Stanton (D),  Haley Stevens (D),  Marilyn Strickland (D),  Emilia Sykes (D),  Mark Takano (D),  Bennie Thompson (D),  Rashida Tlaib (D),  Paul Tonko (D),  Ritchie Torres (D),  David Trone (D),  Lauren Underwood (D),  Juan Vargas (D),  Marc Veasey (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Maxine Waters (D),  Nikema Williams (D),  Frederica Wilson (D), 

Last Action

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (on 04/30/2024)

Bill Topics

Civil Rights, Minority Issues, and Civil Liberties
  • ‐ Ethnic Minority and Racial Group Discrimination
  • ‐ General Civil Rights
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Document Type Source Location Created
State Bill Page https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8191/all-info 05/06/2024
BillText https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr8191/BILLS-118hr8191ih.pdf 06/01/2024
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