S 483
109th Congress
Senate
Education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Freedom of speech
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Religious liberty
Student activities
A bill to strengthen religious liberty and combat government hostility to expressions of faith, by extending the reach of The Equal Access Act to elementary schools.
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 1, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1875)
Mar 1, 2005
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1873-1875)
Mar 1, 2005
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Equal Access Act to include coverage of public elementary schools. (The Act currently prohibits public secondary schools, if they receive Federal funds and if they offer a limited public forum, from denying equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminating against, any students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open forum on the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech at such meetings.)
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1875)
Committees of jurisdiction
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