Dismantle DEI Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires prohibiting certain diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, exempts executive orders rescinding racial equity and LGBTQ+ protections, and provides office of Personnel Management Act revisions. It relies on compliance mandates, appropriations, reporting requirements, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Education, Labor, and Finance.
Who Benefits and How
Federal agencies could face lower compliance burdens, Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (ODEIA) could face lower compliance burdens, and Federal agencies with DEI offices could face lower compliance burdens.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Recipients of federal grants would take on compliance duties, Employers and educational institutions would take on compliance duties, and Federal employees and applicants would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Requires prohibiting certain diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
- Exempts executive orders rescinding racial equity and LGBTQ+ protections.
- Provides office of Personnel Management Act revisions.
- Requires office of Management and Budget regulatory revision and rescission.
- Imposes prohibiting Federal funds use for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill requires prohibiting certain diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, exempts executive orders rescinding racial equity and LGBTQ+ protections, and provides office of Personnel Management Act revisions.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Labor, Finance
Primary Purpose
The bill requires prohibiting certain diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, exempts executive orders rescinding racial equity and LGBTQ+ protections, and provides office of Personnel Management Act revisions.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- Federal agencies
- Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (ODEIA)
- Federal agencies with DEI offices
- Office of Management and Budget
- Financial institutions regulated by Dodd-Frank Act
Identified Costs
- Recipients of federal grants
- Employers and educational institutions
- Federal employees and applicants
- Federal agencies and employees
- Executive agencies and parties entering into cooperative agreements with them
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Schmitt (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Daines, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Agency heads, chairs of advisory committees, advisory committees, Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council, Executive agencies and parties entering cooperative agreements
Positive-direction: Federal agencies implementing the rescinded executive orders, Federal agencies with DEI offices, Federal functional regulators, Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, Office of Management and Budget
Negative-direction: Agency heads, chairs of advisory committees, advisory committees, Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council, Executive agencies and parties entering cooperative agreements, Executive agencies and parties entering into cooperative agreements with them, Federal agencies, Federal agencies and programs receiving Federal assistance
Advisory Committees with prohibited diversity, equity, or inclusion practices, Federal agencies, Federal agencies and employees
Positive-direction: Federal agencies
Negative-direction: Advisory Committees with prohibited diversity, equity, or inclusion practices, Federal agencies and employees, Recipients of federal grants
Contractors and subcontractors subject to diversity, equity or inclusion practices, Federal contractors
Financial institutions regulated by Dodd-Frank Act
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_administrator"
- → The Administrator identified in the operative section
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