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Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
Filed: 4/8/2014
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5793
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5793 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
5 | | Uniform Racial Classification Act. |
6 | | Section 5. Uniform racial classification. Notwithstanding |
7 | | any other provision of law, except as otherwise required by |
8 | | federal law or regulation, whenever a State agency is required |
9 | | by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or |
10 | | ethnic classifications, that State agency shall use the |
11 | | following classifications: (i) White; (ii) Black or African |
12 | | American; (iii) American Indian or Alaska Native; (iv) Asian; |
13 | | (v) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or (vi) Hispanic |
14 | | or Latino. |
15 | | For the purposes of this Act, "State agency" means the |
16 | | offices of the constitutional officers identified in Article V |