This amendment adds specific protections for federally recognized Indian tribes and modifies restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion content in educational institutions.
- Adds a definition of 'Federally recognized Indian tribe' as a tribal government and its citizens with an acknowledged government-to-government relationship with the United States. (Page 3, after line 14)
- Modifies language to specify that preference cannot be given on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin to a participant in any 'core' function of the entity. (Page 4, line 15)
- Changes the punctuation and structure of requirements language, converting a colon to a period and removing conditional phrasing. (Page 5, lines 9-16)
- Adds a new prohibition preventing provision of support services and trainings intended to familiarize students, faculty and staff with specific federally recognized Indian tribes or other tribes identified as a political class, classification or identity. (Page 5, after line 16)
- Adds new provisions establishing that federally recognized Indian tribes and their citizens are recognized as a political class (not a race) and that programs, degrees, classes and endowments related to Indian tribes, history, culture, language and traditions are not considered diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. (Page 6, after line 14)
- Removes a colon from the end of a line. (Page 7, line 7)
- Deletes extensive provisions defining 'related content' that previously outlined specific diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory concepts. (Page 7, lines 9 through 23)
- Deletes provisions defining 'related course' and related practices. (Page 8, lines 1-11)
- Removes lettering designation from a subsection. (Page 8, line 13)
- Modifies the definition of courses subject to restrictions by replacing 'on diversity, equity and' with 'related' and adding 'that' before 'includes', narrowing the scope of affected courses. (Page 9, lines 1-2)
- Adds 'required' to specify that content restrictions apply to required content in any course. (Page 10, line 12)
- Changes 'general education,' to 'any', broadening the applicability of content restrictions. (Page 10, line 14)
- Removes balance of line and replaces with semicolon, shortening exemption language. (Page 11, line 8)
- Deletes an entire line of exemption provisions. (Page 11, line 9)
- Deletes multiple lines of exemption provisions and renumbers remaining sections. (Page 11, lines 11-17)
- Changes subsection numbering from (iii) to (ii). (Page 11, line 19)
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