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Fargo Human Rights Commission reviews state bills affecting schools, surveys and religious displays
Summary
Commission members heard a legislative briefing about multiple North Dakota bills — including measures on posting the Ten Commandments in schools, Sunday "blue laws," restrictions on student surveys, and penalties related to transgender student policies — and discussed potential local impacts and monitoring needs.
Kristen Nelson, a commission member, gave the Human Rights Commission a legislative briefing Jan. 16, saying the North Dakota legislative session began Jan. 7 and that “almost thousand bills” have been filed so far.
Nelson summarized several bills she said the commission should watch. She described House Bill 11 45 as a proposal “about adding the 10 Commandments document to all school buildings, classrooms, higher education, universities in the state.” She said, “For Fargo public schools alone we have 8 25 classrooms that this would impact and there is no appropriation for adding this,” and noted no action had been taken on the bill yet.
Nelson also described what she called a “blue laws” proposal, referenced as House Bill 11 50, that would require certain businesses to close until noon on Sundays while creating exemptions for others. “There isn't necessarily anything in there that defines what somebody's Sabbath is or like what their…
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