(1) A state agency shall do both of the following if that state agency lists racial or ethnic classifications in a writing developed or printed 90 or more days after the effective date of this section, and if that state agency requests that an individual select a classification to designate his or her race or ethnicity:
  (a) Include in the writing the term “multiracial” as a classification, and a definition of that term that substantially provides that “multiracial” means having parents of different races.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 18.1206a

  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  (b) Exclude from the writing the term “other” as a classification.
  (2) If a federal agency requires a state agency to transmit information obtained from an individual pursuant to a writing described in subsection (1), but rejects the classification “multiracial”, the state agency shall redesignate the individuals identified as multiracial by allocating those individuals to racial or ethnic classifications approved by the federal agency in the same ratio that those classifications occur within the general population of the group from which the information was solicited.
  (3) As used in this section, “writing” means that term as defined in section 2 of the freedom of information act, Act No. 442 of the Public Acts of 1976, being section 15.232 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
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