California Government Code

§ 8310.9

GOV § 8310.9 Effective Jan 1, 2016Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 5

Statute text

(a)The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(1)The State of California currently has the largest population of people in the United States who identify with more than one ethnicity or race. This population of Californians who identify as multiracial is rapidly growing.

(2)Many state forms that currently require respondents to choose only a single ethnicity or race force multiracial Californians to deny a significant part of their heritage. Information collected in this manner often deprives the state of accurate data with which to meet the needs of its diverse communities.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 433, Sec. 1. (AB 532) Effective January 1, 2016.