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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas Prohibits State Government Diversity Offices, Mandatory Training, and Identity Statements
Last action · March 10, 2025: Referred to State AffairsSponsor: Alan Schoolcraft
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What This Bill Proposed
Texas state agencies, public universities, and local governments are prohibited from maintaining diversity offices, requiring diversity-related training, or requesting identity statements for hiring and admissions. Beginning January 1, 2026, individuals and the attorney general can sue to enforce the restrictions, and officials who knowingly violate them commit a misdemeanor punishable by fines up to $5,000 and jail time up to six months.
State and local public employees, public university staff, and students face a ban on mandatory training programs and application statements touching on concepts like implicit bias or critical race theory, while public agencies must eliminate administrative units dedicated to these initiatives.
- State legislative measures restricting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public institutions have been introduced in multiple states following national policy debates. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
governmental employers
State agencies, public universities, and local governments must eliminate diversity offices, halt mandatory training programs, and alter hiring and admissions procedures.
state employees
students
Enrollees in public educational systems and state programs are exempt from mandatory training and submission requirements related to personal identity characteristics.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 10, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to State Affairs
- Mar 10, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Nov 13, 2024HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Discoveries
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Comprehensive Public Sector DEI Ban
The bill systematically targets administrative units, mandatory training, and hiring statements across all state and local government entities, backed by both civil injunctions and criminal penalties.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 85)
- Controversy90Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment15Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz75Current news / social attention level
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