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House committee backs bill to protect belief-based student groups at public colleges
Summary
The House Education Committee voted to recommend HB 390, which would protect belief-based student organizations' ability to require leaders to adhere to the groups' sincerely held beliefs. The bill drew legal context from U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate cases and passed the committee unanimously after a cleanup amendment.
Representative Jennifer Lisenby, sponsor of House Bill 390, told the House Education Committee on Feb. 18 that the bill is narrowly written to protect belief-based student organizations on public university campuses and to prevent colleges from forcing student groups to change beliefs or leadership to remain registered.
The bill, Lisenby said, would “protect and ensure that a diverse range of student groups of all creeds and points of view … are free to operate as registered student clubs and to require that their leaders adhere to the group's sincerely held beliefs.”
The sponsor and outside witnesses placed the bill in…
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