Compliance Stuff

On September 26, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)  extended  two timelines under Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (SPD 15): Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. In 2024, OMB issued updates to the race and ethnicity categories that are used for data collection across the federal government. Those updates remain in effect, but OMB has pushed back deadlines for implementation by six months. Quick Hits Chief Financial Officers Act agencies and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must now submit Action Plans on Race and Ethnicity Data to OMB by March 28, 2026, extending the September 28, 2025, deadline that had been imposed when OMB released the SPD 15 revisions in March of 2024. OMB also extended the deadline to update federal information collections of race and ethnicity data to be consistent with the new standards. Such updates must be made as soon as possible, but the new deadline h...

  The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has revised Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15).  The changes will impact how companies collect the race and ethnicity data for their federal reporting.   The 2024 SPD 15 replaces and supersedes the 1997 SPD 15.  OMB cited “large societal, political, economic shifts in the United States” during the past 25 years including “increasing racial and ethnic diversity; a growing number of people who identify as more than one race or ethnicity; and changing immigration and migration patterns.”   Key revisions include a new race/ethnicity category and a one question format combining the race and ethnicity question into “What is your race and/or ethnicity? Select all that apply and enter additional details in the spaces below.”   With the addition of the new  Middle Eastern/North African  category, there will be seven race and/or ethnicity categories: ...