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Heated debate over measure to allow indoor expressive activity at campuses ends with sponsor withdrawing bill
Summary
Senators debated a bill to extend outdoor campus expression rights indoors, raising disputes over removing explicit First Amendment language, the definition of 'disruptive' conduct, effects on classrooms and nondisclosure agreements; sponsor Senator Sullivan withdrew the bill for redrafting.
A proposal to allow expressive activity inside state-supported university buildings prompted extended questioning and was withdrawn by its sponsor after members raised concerns about definitions, enforcement and legal risk.
Senator Sullivan, who framed the measure as moving ‘‘what’s allowable outside to what’s allowable inside’’ and renaming the statute to emphasize free thought in higher education, said the bill preserves the universities’ ability to impose reasonable time, place and manner…
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