Strengthen Committee to Eliminate Institutional Discrimination (CEID) Policy Compliance

The legislation establishes GCORR and GCSRW as partners with GCFA in determining fair and just recommendations for withholding funds from agencies and Church- related institutions that are non-compliant in creating and/or implementing their CEID policies.

It further ensures that policies of compliance will be submitted.  

Action

Amend ¶ 811.1

¶ 811. General Policies—1. The General Council on Finance and Administration is authorized to withhold approval of a portion or all of the budget of any agency or any Church-related institution receiving general Church funds (see ¶ 810.2) until such agency or Church-related institution shall submit to the council in writing its established policies of: (a) recruiting, employing, utilizing, recompensing, and promoting professional staff and other personnel without regard to race, ethnicity, age, or gender; (b) fulfilling its duties and responsibilities in a manner that does not involve segregation or discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, or gender; and (c) insofar as possible, purchasing goods and services from vendors who are in compliance with such policies as are described in sections (a) and (b) of this paragraph. In the fulfillment of this directive, the council shall take the following steps:(1) collaborate with the General Commission on Religion and Race and the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women in the development of a certification form to be submitted to the council by agencies and institutions receiving general Church funds; (2) review copies of such certifications with the two commissions; (3) in consultation with the two Commissions determine adequate recommendations  regarding possible noncompliance with these policies by agencies and institutions receiving general Church funds; and (4) in collaboration with the General Commission on Religion and Race, and the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, the General Council on Finance and Administration shall determine fair and just recommendations for withholding funds from agencies and church related institutions that are non-compliant.