Bill Text: MI SB0960 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Civil rights: public records; certain writings requesting racial or ethnic identification; modify. Amends secs. 202a & 402a of 1976 PA 453 (MCL 37.2202a & 37.2402a). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0958'24
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-26 - Referred To Committee On Oversight [SB0960 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-SB0960-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 960
A bill to amend 1976 PA 453, entitled
"Elliott-Larsen civil rights act,"
by amending sections 202a and 402a (MCL 37.2202a and 37.2402a), as added by 1995 PA 88.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 202a. (1) An Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), an employer shall do both of the following if that employer lists racial or ethnic classifications in a writing developed or printed 90 or more days after the effective date of this section, and if that employer requests that an individual select a classification to designate his or her the individual's race or ethnicity:
(a) Include in the writing the term "multiracial" as a classification, and a definition of that term that substantially provides that "multiracial" means having parents of different races.
(b) Exclude from the writing the term "other" as a classification.
(2) If a federal agency requires an employer to transmit information obtained from an individual pursuant to a writing described in subsection (1), but rejects the classification "multiracial", the employer shall redesignate the individuals individual identified as multiracial by allocating those individuals the individual to racial or ethnic classifications approved by the federal agency in the same ratio that those classifications occur within the general population of the group from which the information was solicited.
(3) This section does not apply to an employer that is a public body as that term is defined in the race and ethnicity data collection act.
(4) (3) As used in this section, "writing" means that term as defined in section 2 of the freedom of information act, Act No. 1976 PA 442, of the Public Acts of 1976, being section MCL 15.232. of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
Sec. 402a. (1) An Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), an educational institution shall do both of the following if that educational institution lists racial or ethnic classifications in a writing developed or printed 90 or more days after the effective date of this section, and if that educational institution requests that an individual select 1 of those classifications to designate his or her the individual's race or ethnicity:
(a) Include in the writing the term "multiracial" as a classification, and a definition of that term that substantially provides that "multiracial" means having parents of different races.
(b) Exclude from the writing the term "other" as a classification.
(2) If a federal agency requires an educational institution to transmit information obtained from an individual pursuant to a writing described in subsection (1), but rejects the classification "multiracial", the educational institution shall redesignate the individuals individual identified as multiracial by allocating those individuals the individual to racial or ethnic classifications approved by the federal agency in the same ratio that those classifications occur within the general population of the group from which the information was solicited.
(3) This section does not apply to an educational institution that is a public body or state public university as those terms are defined in the race and ethnicity data collection act.
(4) (3) As used in this section, "writing" means that term as defined in section 2 of the freedom of information act, Act No. 1976 PA 442, of the Public Acts of 1976, being section MCL 15.232. of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 958 of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.
