HB 799

Amends GS 126-14.6, adding a new provision establishing as State policy that State employee hiring, promotion, and training must be without regard to race or ethnicity, religion, or sex and that applications for State employment cannot inquire about race. Expands the definition of "promote"" to also mean compelling State employees or contractors (was State employees only) to affirm or profess belief in the concepts listed in the section. Eliminates current subsection (b), which lists 13 concepts that are prohibited from being promoted in State government workplaces or included as part of any State employee training program. Enacts new subsection (c), listing 13 concepts as prohibited from being promoted in State government workplaces or included as part of any State employee training program, borrowing and expanding upon the language of the 13 concepts eliminated from subsection (b) to address religion and ethnicity in addition to race and sex. Deems a violation of the statute employment discrimination."