114TH CONGRESS.

1ST SESSION

S.1
To ensure that race and sex are not used as plus factors in college admissions because they discriminate
against the rights of the majority of college applicants and undermine a student’s own individual merit
and academic achievements.

In the Senate of Fifth Period GoPo

Date: October 14, 2019
Ms. Christine Lee introduced this bill which was read twice and referred to the committee on health,
education, labor, and pensions.

A BILL
To ensure that race and sex are not used as plus factors in college admissions because they discriminate
against the rights of the majority of college applicants and undermine a student’s own individual merit
and academic achievements.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Period 5 Gopo in Congress assembled

2 SEC. 1.

3 Student Merit Protection Act

4 SEC. 2.

5 (a) THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE.- A clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the US

6 Constitution that prohibits any state from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the

7 equal protection of the law. This applies to the bill because all college applicants should not

8 be judged based on race or ethnicity.

9 (b) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.- An active effort to improve educational opportunities for

10 members of race or ethnicity minority groups. The bill argues against affirmative action to

11 avoid discriminating against majority groups.

12 (c) REVERSE DISCRIMINATION.- The practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to

13 groups known to have been discriminated against previously. This applies to the bill because

14 colleges now favor the minority groups in application pools which decreases the acceptance

15 rate of majority groups.

16 SEC. 3.
18 (a) This act will make affirmative action for all private college institutions illegal and

prevent

19 race and sex based college admissions so colleges will only consider an applicant’s acedemic

20 and extracuricular achievements in order to prevent reverse discrimination against majority

21 Applicants.

22 (b) All majority applicants and will be impacted because their acceptance rate will increase.

23 Private college admission officers will also be impacted because they would revise

their

24 acceptance process to fit new protocols.

25 SEC. 4.

26 (a) The funding for this bill will come from taxing of all private college institutions. This tax will

27 be ten percent of each college’s freshmen tuition.

28 (b) This act will be enforced by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education. Ten

29 percent of colleges will randomly be chosen to send all applicant data for screening,

30 demonstrating transparency and oversight. Additionally, applicants will be able to file a

31 complaint if they feel they have been discriminated against.

32 SEC. 5.

33 (a) If the Department of Education finds that an applicant from a minority group is accepted over

34 an applicant from a majority group with higher academic and extracurricular achievements,

35 the college will be given a warning and have to pay a fine to the Department of Education

36 and the applicant based on a sliding scale that is affected by the applicant’s economic status

37 and is proportional to the college’s annual revenue. If the college continues to discriminate

38 against majority groups, the Department of Education will take control of the college’s

39 admissions department and the college must provide funding for the department of education

40 to run their admissions processes. This allows these colleges to have accountability because

41 they will have to be responsible for their actions and pay the penalty if needed.
42 SEC. 6.

43 (a) The bill will go into effect on August first the year the bill is passed unless the bill is passed

44 after August.Then,the bill will go into effect next August first.