OMB’s 2024 Revisions to SPD No. 15 Are Final. What’s Happening Now?

The federal government keeps a public tracker for its 2024 data-standards overhaul, and this update is worth a bookmark. Agencies must adopt the new combined race and ethnicity question over a multi-year window, some early movers (FEMA, Medicaid, NOAA) are already rolling it out, and the standards now sit on a regular ten-year review cycle so the next fix will not take another generation. Dry reading, real consequences: this page is where the change our families have waited for becomes visible, agency by agency.

https://spd15revision.gov/content/spd15revision/en/news/2024-10-16-omb-blog.html