CHAPTER NUMBER: 459
File Code: Agencies, Offices, and Officials
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Healey (Task Force on Multiracial Designations) and
Delegates Patterson,
Turner, Bobo, Pendergrass, and Mandel
- Entitled:
-
State Government - Forms - Racial
Identification
Requiring a department or independent unit to include specified racial
categories in the preparation of a form that requires identification
of individuals by race; requiring that such a form allow multiracial
respondents to choose more than one racial category; requiring
respondents to select their own answers on specified forms except when
unable to do so; requiring that the forms provide a separate question
for specified respondents of Hispanic or Latino origin; and
establishing a deadline for standards to be implemented on forms.
House Action
- 1/28
- First Reading Commerce and Government Matters
- Hearing 2/10 at 1:15 p.m.
- 2/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Commerce and Government Matters
- 2/17
- Favorable with Amendments
- Committee Amendment Withdrawn
- Substitute Committee Amendment Adopted
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/20
- Third Reading Passed (128-2)
- 4/2
- Return Passed
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 459
Senate Action
- 2/23
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/11
- Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/31
- Favorable Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 4/2
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/6
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES
- ETHNIC AFFAIRS
- FORMS
- GENERAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
- IDENTIFICATION
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- State Government
- (
10-606
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 226365/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 17, 1998 at:
10:12 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 416460/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 17, 1998 at:
10:11 a.m. Status: Withdrawn
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- February 20, 1998: Third Reading Passed (128-2)
- Senate
- April 6, 1998: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
