DOT Title VI Disparate-Impact Regulation Rescission
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The Department of Transportation is amending its Title VI regulations to remove provisions that impose disparate-impact liability on federally funded transportation programs, retaining only intentional-discrimination prohibitions to align more closely with the statutory text of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The action implements Executive Order 14281 and parallels a corresponding DOJ regulatory change. Practical effect: recipients of DOT funding (transit agencies, state DOTs, airports, etc.) would no longer face DOT Title VI enforcement based solely on facially neutral policies with disparate effects, though intentional-discrimination claims remain actionable.
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Rescinding Portions of Department of Transportation's Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Statutory Text and To Implement Executive Order 14281
11-jun-2026
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