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FL S1710
Bill
AI Summary
- Prohibits Florida state agencies from expending any funds to establish, sustain, or staff a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office or to hire a DEI officer, with enforcement through the Attorney General via writ of mandamus
- Defines DEI broadly to include efforts to influence employee composition based on race, sex, color, or ethnicity; promote differential treatment based on those characteristics; and promote concepts such as unconscious bias, microaggressions, antiracism, intersectionality, gender theory, and related frameworks
- Requires all potential recipients of state contracts or grants to certify to the Chief Financial Officer that they do not and will not require employees, contractors, volunteers, vendors, or agents to study or be instructed with DEI material using state funds
- Requires state agencies applying for federal health care-related grants involving DEI to publish all application materials on their website and submit the grant proposal to the Senate Health Policy Committee and House Health and Human Services Committee
- Mandates that medical institutions of higher education (Florida College System institutions, state universities, and state-funded trade schools offering health care degrees or training) use letter grade-based assessments rather than pass/fail for required courses and require a standardized admissions test focused on science and medical knowledge, effective July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Prohibitions and Limitations on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Requirements for Medical Institutions of Higher Education
Last Action
Died in Education Postsecondary
6/16/2025
Committee Referrals
Education Postsecondary3/19/2025
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