{"bill":{"bill_key":"MS-HB1609-2025","title":"Diversity, Equity ad Inclusion; prohibit public IHLs from expending appropriated funds to promote.","side":"anti","state":"MS","year":2025,"status_cat":"failed","ls_status":"failed","summary":"Diversity, Equity ad Inclusion; prohibit public IHLs from expending appropriated funds to promote.","notes":"State Colleges: Specifies SOGI; This is the full suite of the Manhattan Institute's anti-DEI model bills from January 2023","types_str":"DEI Ban: Colleges|Don't Say Systemic Biases: Colleges|Don't Say Trans: Colleges|DEI Ban: ADEIB|DEI Ban: EMDT|DEI Ban: CPC","sponsor_mix":"R","url":"https://legiscan.com/MS/bill/HB1609/2025","url_kind":"legiscan","source":"legiscan","special":0,"bluebook":{"cite":"H.B. 1609, 2025 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Miss. 2025), https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/history/HB/HB1609.xml.","short":"Miss. H.B. 1609."}},"same_key":[],"sponsors":[{"name":"Stacey Hobgood-Wilkes","party":"R","state":"MS","district":"HD-108","is_primary":true,"href":"/people/ls-19482"}],"citations":["USC:20:1681"],"text":{"available":true,"credit":"Bill data and text from LegiScan (legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 and used in modified form. LegiScan does not endorse the Trans Data Initiative.","versions":[{"role":"intro","label":"As introduced","chars":22092}]}}