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Sen. Ann Gillespie
Filed: 4/20/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 662
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 662 on page 2, by |
| 3 | | replacing lines 20 through 22 with the following:
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| 4 | | "(e) The Commission shall give priority to those |
| 5 | | applicants who are members of a racial minority. In this |
| 6 | | subsection (e), "racial minority" means a person who is a |
| 7 | | citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident |
| 8 | | alien of the United States and who is: |
| 9 | | (1) Black (a person having origins in any of the black
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| 10 | | racial groups in Africa); |
| 11 | | (2) Hispanic (a person of Spanish or Portuguese
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| 12 | | culture with origins in Mexico, South or Central America,
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| 13 | | or the Caribbean Islands, regardless of race); |
| 14 | | (3) Asian American (a person having origins in any of
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| 15 | | the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the
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| 16 | | Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands); or |
| 17 | | (4) American Indian or Alaskan Native (a person having
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| 18 | | origins in any of the original peoples of North |