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Committee Concurred in Senate Amendment to HB1669 to Codify Religious-Freedom Policy for Adoption Agencies
Summary
At a meeting of the House Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative & Military Affairs Committee, members concurred in Senate Amendment 1 to House Bill 1669, which the sponsor said would codify Arkansas’s current policy protecting the ability of adoption agencies and foster parents to exercise religious beliefs.
At a meeting of the House Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative & Military Affairs Committee, members concurred in Senate Amendment 1 to House Bill 1669, which the sponsor said would codify Arkansas’s current policy protecting the ability of adoption agencies and foster parents to exercise religious beliefs.
State Representative Mary Bentley, R‑54, who presented the amendment, said the Attorney General’s office requested small changes to ensure the state did not “abolish totally our state sovereign’s immunity.” She said the…
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