Emails to Dakota Soda Regarding HB 4915
Summary
A committee source document compiling emails sent to Dakota Soda about HB 4915. The first, sent Friday, October 17, 2025, is headed Opposition to HB 4915 and asks that the comment be read to the committee during the hearing. That writer argues that forbidding training in implicit bias would leave health care professionals less knowledgeable and says the bill should die in committee. The second, sent Monday, October 20, 2025, states support for HB 4915 from a retired Licensed Professional Counselor, who calls the ongoing implicit bias training requirement redundant and unnecessary for licensure.
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“Emails to Dakota Soda Regarding HB 4915.”
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Dakota Soda From: Paul Jordan <pgj1949@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2025 11:23 AM To: Dakota Soda Subject: Opposition to HB 4915 Ms. Soda, | would appreciate it if you could read this comment to the committee during the hearing. HB 4915 is yet another attempt by those who long for the days when White Americans pretended that our nation was composed of and dominated by White people. Forbidding training in "implicit bias" amounts to a requirement that health care professionals should be ignorant of any effect that their own perspectives and opinions regarding race, religion, and gender might have on their delivery of services to people who seem different from them in some way. The point of professional training is to become a more knowledgeable and effective service provider, not a more ignorant one. This bill should die in committee. Paul Jordan Thank you for your time and attention. Dakota Soda From: Mitch Rice <ricem1957@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2025 10:38 AM To: Dakota Soda Subject: HB 4915 Dear Committee: |am in support of HB4915. | ama retired Licensed Professional Counselor and the ongoing training requirement of Implicit Bias training is redundant and unnecessary for licensure. Mitch Rice Lansing resident
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