Summary

Bans federal diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEI/A) offices, officers, trainings, and many DEI‑related programs across the executive branch, federal contractors, grant recipients, advisory committees, accreditors, and education funding. It requires closure or termination of existing DEI offices and programs within set deadlines, forbids use of federal funds for many DEI activities, repeals or alters multiple statutory DEI provisions across agencies, and creates private lawsuits with statutory damages for violations. The bill imposes specific deadlines (e.g., 30, 90, 180 days) for agencies to close or revise programs and materials, adds new prohibitions to personnel and contractor rules, constrains accreditation standards, and preserves historically organized Equal Employment Opportunity and ADA enforcement offices while allowing non‑Federal funds to be used for DEI activities in some contexts. It also authorizes minimum monetary penalties and attorneys’ fees for plaintiffs who prevail in court challenges under the Act.

Key Points

• Bars federal agencies, contractors, and grant recipients from maintaining DEI/A offices, chief diversity officers, or substantially similar roles using federal funds.
• Prohibits development, purchase, distribution, or mandatory completion of DEI/critical theory/intersectionality/sexual‑orientation or gender‑identity trainings funded by federal dollars.
• Requires rapid closure or wind‑down of existing DEI programs and offices (common deadlines: 30, 90, and 180 days after enactment).
• Adds new personnel protections preventing adverse employment actions for refusing to participate in or assent to banned trainings; prohibits reassignment of eliminated positions.
• Requires contract and grant clauses barring performance where a party is subject to a "prohibited diversity, equity, or inclusion practice."
• Constricts accreditor standards and Department of Education funding so accreditors cannot require or evaluate institutions on DEI commitments.
• Repeals and amends numerous statutory DEI provisions across financial regulation, defense, health, intelligence, and other laws to remove DEI mandates.
• Creates a broad private right of action with minimum statutory damages of $1,000 per violation per day, plus attorneys' fees and other relief.
• Explicitly preserves historically organized EEO and ADA enforcement offices and allows use of non‑Federal funds for DEI activities in certain contexts.
• Includes severability language to keep the remainder of the law in force if parts are found unconstitutional.

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