When the voters of our state approved I-200, they were making a statement that they wanted to end preferences based on race or sex while leaving unchanged preferences for people with disabilities, for veterans, and for people over 40 years of age. I-200 is now the law of our state and I will uphold and implement the law as I am sworn to do. This directive is how I believe state agencies should implement I-200. We must make sure that everyone is given fair and equal consideration in public employment, public contracting, and public education. Therefore, we must continue and intensify our outreach and recruitment efforts to encourage diversity.
Diversity is what makes our state and country unique.
And our diversity is a vital source of strength, creativity, and innovation. Our task is to harmonize the new and existing laws to the greatest extent possible. I-200, I have identified several broad categories of laws, rules, policies and procedures that may be affected. Each of those categories is described below, together with my decision for addressing I-200's impact. All executive agencies are directed to review their rules, policies, procedures and goals and to make changes where necessary to be consistent with this directive.