{"bill":{"bill_key":"TX-HB1521-2025","title":"Relating to the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by certain governmental entities.","side":"anti","state":"TX","year":2025,"status_cat":"failed","ls_status":"introduced","summary":"Relating to the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by certain governmental entities.","notes":"No government entities to open DEI offices; where DEI initiative include refs to SOGI, including \"gender theory\" and \"transgender ideology\"; includes variations on the Manhattan Institute's \"Abolish DEI Bureaucracy\" model bill from 2023","types_str":"DEI Ban: Government|DEI Ban: Colleges|DEI Ban: K12|Don't Say Systemic Biases: Government|Don't Say Systemic Biases: Colleges|Don't Say Systemic Biases: K12|Don't Say Trans: Government|Don't Say Trans: Colleges|Don't Say Trans: K12|Misgendering: Pronoun Ban|DEI Ban: ADEIB","sponsor_mix":"R","url":"https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB1521/2025","url_kind":"legiscan","source":"legiscan","special":0,"bluebook":{"cite":"H.B. 1521, 89th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2025), https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB1521.","short":"Tex. H.B. 1521."}},"same_key":[],"sponsors":[{"name":"Stan Gerdes","party":"R","state":"TX","district":"HD-017","is_primary":true,"href":"/people/ls-24083"},{"name":"Carl Tepper","party":"R","state":"TX","district":"HD-084","is_primary":true,"href":"/people/ls-23342"},{"name":"Nate Schatzline","party":"R","state":"TX","district":"HD-093","is_primary":true,"href":"/people/ls-23190"},{"name":"William Metcalf","party":"R","state":"TX","district":"HD-016","is_primary":false,"href":"/people/ls-16346"}],"citations":["TX:61.003","TX:621.001"],"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":6149}]}}