Bill > SSB1150

Introduced Session

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, or ethnicity, 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, or ethnicity; any effort by a county or city to promote or promulgate policies and procedures designed or implemented with reference to race, color, or ethnicity; S.F. _____ 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. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion office” does not include the work product of licensed attorneys and paralegal and secretarial support for the licensed attorneys hired by a county or city to ensure legal compliance with a county or city’s obligations under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., as amended, the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. §621 et seq., as amended, the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, as amended, or any other applicable federal or state law or a court order.

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 507. (on 03/03/2025)

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