Section 801 – Equal employment opportunity plan.

• (1) In conjunction with the director’s duties under Section 63A-17-106, and notwithstanding the general prohibition in Subsection 34A-5-106(3)(c), the director shall prepare an equal employment opportunity plan for state employment consistent with the guidelines provided in federal equal employment opportunity laws and in related federal regulations.

• (2) The equal employment opportunity plan required by this section applies only to state career service employees described in Section 63A-17-301.

• (3) The Legislature shall review the equal employment opportunity plan required by this section before it may be implemented.

• (4) Nothing in this section requires the establishment of hiring quotas or preferential treatment of any identifiable group.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 344, 2021 General Session