House File 2559 H-8212 Amend House File 2559 as follows: 1 1. Page 19, line 24, after < positions > by inserting < , and 2 the Iowa state civil rights commission shall apply a strict 3 scrutiny standard to any discrimination complaint involving 4 religion as a protected class, so that no person in Iowa is 5 substantially burdened in their free exercise of religion, 6 unless applying the burden to the person’s exercise of religion 7 in a particular situation is essential to further a specific 8 compelling state interest in the least restrictive means of 9 furthering that compelling state interest > 10 ______________________________ SHIPLEY of Van Buren ______________________________ CISNEROS of Muscatine ______________________________ SALMON of Black Hawk ______________________________ OSMUNDSON of Clayton -1- HF 2559.3932 (3) 89 as/tm 1/ 1 #1.