Bill Title: Providing for voluntary student expression of religious viewpoints in public schools; requiring public school districts to allow religious expression in class assignments, to provide students with the freedom to organize religious groups and activities and to provide a limited public forum for student speakers at nongraduation and graduation events; and providing for a model policy for voluntary religious expression in public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 23-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-23 - Referred to EDUCATION [HB549 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Robert Kauffman [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-089	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Matthew Baker [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-068	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Timothy Krieger [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-057	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Stephen Bloom [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-199	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Doyle Heffley [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-122	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Richard Saccone [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-039	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative William Kortz [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-038	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Stephen Barrar [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-160	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jerome Knowles [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-124	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kathy Rapp [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-065	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Seth Grove [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-196	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Will Tallman [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-193	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bryan Cutler [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-100	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mark Gillen [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-128	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John McGinnis [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-079	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Daryl Metcalfe [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Stanley Saylor [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-094	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Garth Everett [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Matthew Gabler [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Lawrence [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dan Truitt [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-156	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kerry Benninghoff [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-171	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dan Moul [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-091	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Brett Miller [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-041	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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