HB312 Summary

• Prohibits state agencies and public K-12 schools from teaching, instructing, or training any person to adopt or believe "divisive concepts" related to race, sex, or religion, with 11 specifically enumerated prohibited concepts.

• Allows public institutions of higher education to teach divisive concepts as part of academic instruction provided they do not compel students to assent to such concepts and institutions expressly disavow endorsement.

• Prohibits state employees, contractors, and school staff from being compelled to share personal views on controversial public policy issues and prevents penalties for refusing to support divisive concepts.

• Prohibits state acceptance of federal grants or private funding conditioned on teaching, training in, or requiring assent to divisive concepts.

• Authorizes state agencies, school districts, and higher education institutions to discipline or terminate employees and contractors who violate the act, with terminations subject to existing appeal procedures; effective the first day of the third month following passage and approval.