Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in Georgia's public schools.

Highlights:

• Prohibits local education agencies or postsecondary institutions from promoting, supporting, or maintaining any program or activity that advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion (Sec. 1).

• Specifies diversity, equity, and inclusion includes the following (Sec. 1):

• Special treatment or special benefits to individuals based on race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation;

• Promotion of policies or procedures designed or implemented regarding race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation;

• Efforts to promote any training, programming, recruitment, retention, or activities that are designed or implemented with preferential treatment of any race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation over another; and

• Concerning postsecondary institutions, any effort to promote, a particular, widely contested opinion referencing unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, gender ideology or theory, microaggression, group marginalization, antiracism, systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, neopronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, racial privilege, sexual privilege, or any similar or related formulation of these concepts. 

• Specifies this does not include policies related to interscholastic or intercollegiate athletics programs or the design, designation, or use of a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits any postsecondary institution which violates this new section from receiving any state funding (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in Georgia's public schools.

Highlights:

• Prohibits local education agencies or postsecondary institutions from promoting, supporting, or maintaining any program or activity that advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion (Sec. 1).

• Specifies diversity, equity, and inclusion includes the following (Sec. 1):

• Special treatment or special benefits to individuals based on race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation;

• Promotion of policies or procedures designed or implemented regarding race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation;

• Efforts to promote any training, programming, recruitment, retention, or activities that are designed or implemented with preferential treatment of any race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation over another; and

• Concerning postsecondary institutions, any effort to promote, a particular, widely contested opinion referencing unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, gender ideology or theory, microaggression, group marginalization, antiracism, systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, neopronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, racial privilege, sexual privilege, or any similar or related formulation of these concepts. 

• Specifies this does not include policies related to interscholastic or intercollegiate athletics programs or the design, designation, or use of a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits any postsecondary institution which violates this new section from receiving any state funding (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text