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(AP) Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Friday that will prohibit diversity, equity and inclusion programs at public colleges and prohibit faculty from going on strike.

The bill, also known as the "Enact Advance Ohio Higher Education Act," ended up on DeWine's desk after the Senate passed it 20 to 11 on Wednesday.

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Jerry Cirino, a Cleveland-area Republican, has said the bill aims to protect “intellectual diversity,” not dampen it. During Senate debate on the bill in February, Cirino called DEI a “debacle” that “has morphed into institutional discrimination” against conservative perspectives.

Besides banning DEI programs and rescinding certain collective bargaining and tenure protections for faculty, the bill also would make schools promise not to influence student views on “controversial” topics, require every Ohio college student to take a three-hour civics education course and impose dozens of other programmatic and administrative changes.

Schools that violated its provisions would risk losing their state funding.

Senate Bill 1 was passed in the Ohio Senate in mid-February and entered the House for consideration last week. House members voted 58-34 to pass it. It had to go back to the Senate for a concurrence vote since an amendment was added.

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