Senate File 192 - Introduced





                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  BEALL


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                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning the inclusion of gender and certain racial and
  2    ethnic categories in reports issued by state agencies.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  19B.9  STATE AGENCY REPORTS ==
  1  2 RACIAL AND ETHNIC CATEGORIES.
  1  3    A state agency that issues a public report that concerns
  1  4 the general population and includes information or data that
  1  5 can be categorized by gender, race, or ethnicity shall ensure,
  1  6 at a minimum, that categories representing gender, and
  1  7 minority persons as described in section 15.102, subsection 7,
  1  8 paragraph "b", subparagraph (3), or as described in the 1997
  1  9 federal office of management and budget minimum standards for
  1 10 maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and
  1 11 ethnicity, are included in the report unless otherwise
  1 12 provided by law.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 35A.5, subsection 5, Code 2009, is amended
  1 14 to read as follows:
  1 15    5.  Collect and maintain information concerning veterans
  1 16 affairs.  Data and information collected and made available
  1 17 concerning veterans should, if practicable, include
  1 18 information categorized by gender, race, or ethnicity
  1 19 consistent with the requirements of section 19B.9.
  1 20                           EXPLANATION
  1 21    This bill concerns reporting of gender, racial, and ethnic
  1 22 categories in certain reports.
  1 23    The bill requires state agencies that issue a public report
  1 24 that includes information or data by gender and by racial and
  1 25 ethnic categories to ensure that all the racial and ethnic
  1 26 categories described in Code section 15.102, Black, Latino,
  1 27 Asian or Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Alaskan native
  1 28 American, or categories described in the 1997 federal Office
  1 29 of Management and Budget standards for data on race and
  1 30 ethnicity are included.
  1 31    The bill also requires the department of veterans affairs
  1 32 to include, if possible, information categorized by gender,
  1 33 race, or ethnicity as provided by the bill concerning veterans
  1 34 data and information collected and made available by the
  1 35 department.
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