Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 30. “MULTIRACIAL” CLASSIFICATION

20-2-2041. “Multiracial” classification required on forms.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
All written forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents or materials produced by or for or used by any public elementary or secondary school in the state which request information on the racial or ethnic identification of a respondent and which contain a list of racial and ethnic classifications from which such respondent must select one shall include among their choices the classification “multiracial.”#
(b)
No such written document or computer software described in subsection (a) of this Code section shall bear the designation “other” as a racial or ethnic classification after July 1, 1994, unless such document was printed and in stock before July 1, 1994.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 20-2-2041, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1360, § 2.

Multiracial classification on forms, §§ 34-1-5, 50-18-135.

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