HB 20-1048 - Establishes the CROWN Act - Colorado Key Vote

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Title: Establishes the CROWN Act

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes the CROWN Act, which prohibits discrimination based on hair styles or textures.

Highlights:

 

  • Defines “race” to include hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle that is commonly or historically associated with race (Sec. 3-12).

  • Defines “protective hairstyle”to include such hairstyles as braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, bantu knots, afros, and headwraps (Sec. 3-12).

  • Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, including discrimination on the basis of hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle that is commonly or historically associated with race, in the following Colorado Revised Statutes relating to education and employment (Sec. 3-12):

    • 22-2-117;

    • 22-30.5-104;

    • 22-30.5-507;

    • 22-32-109;

    • 22-32-110;

    • 22-38-104;

    • 22-63-206;

    • 24-304-301;

    • 24-50-112.5; and

    • 22-32-109.1.

See How Your Politicians Voted

Title: Establishes the CROWN Act

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes the CROWN Act, which prohibits discrimination based on hair styles or textures.

Highlights:

 

  • Defines “race” to include hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle that is commonly or historically associated with race (Sec. 3-12).

  • Defines “protective hairstyle”to include such hairstyles as braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, bantu knots, afros, and headwraps (Sec. 3-12).

  • Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, including discrimination on the basis of hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle that is commonly or historically associated with race, in the following Colorado Revised Statutes relating to education and employment (Sec. 3-12):

    • 22-2-117;

    • 22-30.5-104;

    • 22-30.5-507;

    • 22-32-109;

    • 22-32-110;

    • 22-38-104;

    • 22-63-206;

    • 24-304-301;

    • 24-50-112.5; and

    • 22-32-109.1.

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