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House committee approves bill to bar government programs that promote institutional discrimination, adds clarifying amendments
Summary
House Bill 147, which would ban certain government practices described as promoting differential treatment based on immutable characteristics and create a new statute in Title 9, passed the House Education Committee after sponsor and agency explanations and several amendments to clarify the scope of instruction and discussion.
Representative Rachel Rodriguez Williams introduced House Bill 147 to the House Education Committee on Jan. 15, urging members to approve a measure she described as prohibiting state institutions from engaging in practices that promote differential treatment on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex or national origin.
Rodriguez Williams said the bill would create a new chapter in Title 9 (proposed Wyoming Statute 9‑25‑101 in the bill) defining “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs as those that “promote differential or preferential treatment of individuals or classify individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin,” and that it would make such institutional practices unlawful for governmental entities. “Wyoming government should not take any action that treats individual Americans differently or segregates them because of immutable…
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