Text: HF02097 Text: HF02099 Text: HF02000 - HF02099 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 280.6A OBSERVANCE MINUTE OF 1 2 SILENCE. 1 3 1. It is the intent of the general assembly and the 1 4 purpose of this section to guarantee within the schools the 1 5 right of every student to the free exercise of religion and to 1 6 subject the freedom of each individual student to the least 1 7 possible pressure from the state either to engage in, or to 1 8 refrain from, religious observation on school grounds. 1 9 2. The board of directors of each school district and the 1 10 authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school may 1 11 establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in 1 12 each classroom. During any daily observance of the one-minute 1 13 period of silence, each teacher responsible for a classroom 1 14 shall ensure that students remain seated and silent and make 1 15 no distracting display to the end that each student may, in 1 16 the exercise of a student's individual choice, meditate, pray, 1 17 or engage in any other silent activity that does not interfere 1 18 with, distract, or impede other students in their exercise of 1 19 individual choice. 1 20 EXPLANATION 1 21 This bill allows the daily observance of a minute of 1 22 silence in each accredited public and nonpublic school 1 23 classroom and states the purpose of the provision to guarantee 1 24 a student's right to the free exercise of religion and to 1 25 subject the freedom of each student to the least possible 1 26 pressure from the state to engage in or refrain from religious 1 27 observance on school grounds. 1 28 The bill requires teachers to ensure, during any daily 1 29 observance of the one-minute period of silence, that students 1 30 remain seated and silent so that all students may exercise 1 31 their individual choice to meditate, pray, or engage in any 1 32 other silent activity. 1 33 LSB 5368YH 79 1 34 kh/sh/8.1
Text: HF02097 Text: HF02099 Text: HF02000 - HF02099 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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