HB 24 - Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion - Alabama Key Vote
Alvin Holmes Did Not Vote on this Legislation.
Timeline
- House Concurrence Vote Passed
- April 25, 2017
- Senate Bill Passed
- April 18, 2017
- House Bill Passed
- March 16, 2017
- Introduced
- Feb. 7, 2017
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Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion
Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion
Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes religiously-affiliated child placement agencies to deny services that conflict with their sincerely held beliefs.
Highlights:
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Prohibits the state from discriminating against, refusing to license, or refusing to renew the license of adoption agencies on the basis that the agency declines services because of its religious beliefs (Secs. 4 & 5).
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Specifies that the decision of a religiously-affiliated child placement agency to refuse services to an individual does not otherwise affect the decisions of other child placement agencies to provide services to such individual (Sec. 5).
- Authorizes child placement agencies affected by a violation of this bill to receive damages (Sec. 7).
Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion