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title: O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2041. “Multiracial” classification required on forms.
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# O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2041. “Multiracial” classification required on forms.

(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.

## History

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

## Cross References

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