TX-SB689-2025
Texas · SB 689 · 2025
Relating to employment practices regarding diversity and prohibiting the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by certain governmental entities.
- Bill key
- TX-SB689-2025
- State
- Texas
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- engrossed
- Citation (Bluebook)
- S.B. 689, 89th Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2025), https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB689.
- Short citation
- Tex. S.B. 689.
- Topics
- Tags
Summary
Relating to employment practices regarding diversity and prohibiting the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by certain governmental entities.
Curator notes
Government, including school districts; training, hiring, ban; specified qualities include: gender identity, sexual orientation, gender theory, neo-pronouns, transgender ideology, heteronormativity... ; includes variation on the Manhattan institute's model bill "Abolish DEI Bureaucracy"
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Hughes | Republican | Senator | SD-001 | Primary sponsor |
| Stan Gerdes | Republican | Representative | HD-017 | Primary sponsor |
| Carl Tepper | Republican | Representative | HD-084 | Primary sponsor |
| Nate Schatzline | Republican | Representative | HD-093 | Primary sponsor |
| Paul Bettencourt | Republican | Senator | SD-007 | Co-sponsor |
| Donna Campbell | Republican | Senator | SD-025 | Co-sponsor |
| Charles Creighton | Republican | Senator | SD-004 | Co-sponsor |
| Brent Hagenbuch | Republican | Senator | SD-030 | Co-sponsor |
| Adam Hinojosa | Republican | Senator | SD-027 | Co-sponsor |
| Mayes Middleton | Republican | Senator | SD-011 | Co-sponsor |
| Charles Schwertner | Republican | Senator | SD-005 | Co-sponsor |
| William Metcalf | Republican | Representative | HD-016 | Co-sponsor |
Bill text
- As introduced (6,148 characters)
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