HB 1201
Released-time religious instruction; require school districts to allow off-campus during school day.
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Bill overview
An act to authorize local school boards to permit the released-time religious instruction of pupils; To require school boards to allow those students desiring released-time religious instruction to participate IN the instruction off-site for at least one hour, one day each week; To prohibit the school district from providing OR facilitating released-time religious instruction on school premises; To permit local school boards to make arrangements with the persons IN charge of the released-time religious instruction as the board deems necessary and advisable; To provide that students shall not be penalized OR considered absent from the school for purposes of attending released-time religious instruction; To provide that students who do not participate IN released-time religious instruction shall continue IN the regular course of daily instruction; To provide that released-time religious instruction shall be given without expense to any local school board; To amend section 37-13-91, mississippi code of 1972, IN conformity to the preceding provisions; And for related purposes.
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