HB4069 HFA 3-6

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Delegate Ellington moved to amend the Senate Amendment on page 3, section 5, line 28, after the word “permitted.’ By inserting thereafter a new section to read as follows:

§18-33-6. Limited public forum; school district policy.

(a) To ensure that the school district does not discriminate against a student’s publicly stated voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, and to eliminate any actual or perceived affirmative school sponsorship or attribution to the district of a student’s expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, a school district shall adopt and implement a policy, The policy must include the establishment of a limited public forum for student speakers that requires the school district to:

(1)  Provide the forum in a manner that does not discriminate against or exclude a student’s voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, on an otherwise permissible subject;

(2) Provide a method, based on neutral criteria, for the selection of student speakers at school events and graduation ceremonies; and

(3) Ensure that a student speaker does not engage in obscene, vulgar, offensively lewd, or indecent speech.

(b) School authorities may disclaim sponsorship of noncurricular groups, forums and events provided that they administer the disclaimer in a manner that does not favor or disfavor groups that meet to engage in prayer or other religious speech.

And

Renumber the remaining sections.

Adopted

Rejected