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US HR1638
US HR1638CROWN Act of 2025 Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2025
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Introduced
02/26/2025
02/26/2025
In Committee
02/26/2025
02/26/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
119th Congress
Bill Summary
A BILL To prohibit discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair.
AI Summary
This bill, known as the CROWN Act of 2025 (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act), aims to prohibit discrimination based on hair texture and hairstyles associated with race or national origin across multiple areas of public life. The legislation addresses longstanding racial biases by explicitly protecting individuals from discrimination in federally assisted programs, housing, public accommodations, employment, and other contexts when wearing natural hairstyles traditionally associated with African Americans, such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros. The bill recognizes the historical use of hair texture and style as a means of racial classification and seeks to prevent exclusion or negative treatment based on these characteristics. It expands existing civil rights laws to provide comprehensive protection, ensuring that individuals cannot be denied educational, employment, or other opportunities because of hairstyles commonly worn by people of African descent. The legislation mandates that grooming requirements and policies be applied in a non-discriminatory manner and allows for enforcement through existing civil rights legal mechanisms, effectively making hair-based discrimination a form of racial or national origin discrimination under federal law.
Committee Categories
Justice
Sponsors (85)
Bonnie Watson Coleman (D)*,
Alma Adams (D),
Gabe Amo (D),
Joyce Beatty (D),
Wesley Bell (D),
Suzanne Bonamici (D),
Shontel Brown (D),
Julia Brownley (D),
Janelle Bynum (D),
André Carson (D),
Troy Carter (D),
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D),
Yvette Clarke (D),
Emanuel Cleaver (D),
Steve Cohen (D),
Herbert Conaway (D),
Jasmine Crockett (D),
Danny Davis (D),
Don Davis (D),
Suzan DelBene (D),
Lloyd Doggett (D),
Adriano Espaillat (D),
Dwight Evans (D),
Cleo Fields (D),
Bill Foster (D),
Valerie Foushee (D),
Laura Friedman (D),
Maxwell Frost (D),
Chuy García (D),
Al Green (D),
Raúl Grijalva (D),
Jahana Hayes (D),
Steven Horsford (D),
Glenn Ivey (D),
Jonathan Jackson (D),
Sara Jacobs (D),
Pramila Jayapal (D),
Hakeem Jeffries (D),
Hank Johnson (D),
Julie Johnson (D),
Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D),
Robin Kelly (D),
Timothy Kennedy (D),
Raja Krishnamoorthi (D),
Greg Landsman (D),
Summer Lee (D),
Lucy McBath (D),
Jenn McClellan (D),
Morgan McGarvey (D),
Jim McGovern (D),
LaMonica McIver (D),
Gregory Meeks (D),
Rob Menendez (D),
Kweisi Mfume (D),
Gwen Moore (D),
Kevin Mullin (D),
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D),
Ilhan Omar (D),
Stacey Plaskett (D),
Mark Pocan (D),
Ayanna Pressley (D),
Mike Quigley (D),
Delia Ramirez (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),
Shri Thanedar (D),
Bennie Thompson (D),
Rashida Tlaib (D),
Paul Tonko (D),
Ritchie Torres (D),
Sylvester Turner (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 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 02/26/2025)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
|---|---|
| State Bill Page | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1638/all-info |
| BillText | https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1638/BILLS-119hr1638ih.pdf |
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