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Committee backs bill to expand campus free-speech protections, remove 'free-speech zones'
Summary
Senator Ballinger's bill treating outdoor campus areas as public forums and eliminating designated 'free-speech zones' passed the Senate Education Committee after an amendment clarifying Department of Corrections language and a discussion about limits for threats and class disruptions.
Senator Ballinger presented legislation to treat outdoor areas of state-supported higher-education campuses as public forums and to prohibit campus-level 'free speech zones.' Ballinger said the bill seeks to "enact into law what usually happens most of the time" by protecting speech broadly while allowing institutions to prevent material and substantial disruption.
The bill defines "material and substantial disruption" and…
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