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Committee advances bill on school prayer, trims potential funding penalty to 12.5%
Summary
The Education Policy committee gave House Bill 43 a favorable report after adopting an amendment that replaces broader religious-text language with a provision about prayer/devotion and caps any funding withholding at 12.5% of administrative state funding, limited to central office expenditures.
The Education Policy committee on Wednesday gave House Bill 43 a favorable report after adopting an amendment that narrows the bill's language on devotional activities in schools and caps a potential funding penalty.
Rep. Ingram, sponsor of House Bill 43, told the committee the measure originally "had a religious text which is a very broad thing and so we changed that took it out to a a prayer and a devotion and it asked school systems to track who wanted to participate and who didn't," and said the tracking requirement had been removed to reduce paperwork. The revised language asks for…
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