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HB 1137 - Requires Schools Provide Students 2 Hours of Religious Practice Per Week - Indiana Key Vote

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Title: Requires Schools Provide Students 2 Hours of Religious Practice Per Week

Signed by Governor Eric Holcomb


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Title: Requires Schools Provide Students 2 Hours of Religious Practice Per Week

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires public schools to release students from class to attend religious instruction for up to 2 hours a week.

Highlights:

  • Authorizes a parent or student enrolled in a public school to submit a written notice to the principal allowing them to attend a school for religious instruction (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the principal to work in a collaborative manner with the parent or entity offering religious instruction to provide assistance for the student receiving religious instruction (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes that the written notice is only valid for the school year in which it has been approved (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the entity providing religious instruction to maintain attendance records and allow inspection of these records to attendance officers (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes that a student that attends a school for religious instruction shall receive the same attendance credit as the student would receive from a public school, for the same length of time (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes secular criteria as including, but not limited to (Sec. 1):

    • Number of hours of classroom instructional time;

    • Course syllabus, methods of assessment in the course; and 

    • Whether the course has been taught by a licensed teacher.

Full Bill Text

See How Your Politicians Voted

Title: Requires Schools Provide Students 2 Hours of Religious Practice Per Week

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires public schools to release students from class to attend religious instruction for up to 2 hours a week.

Highlights:

  • Authorizes a parent or student enrolled in a public school to submit a written notice to the principal allowing them to attend a school for religious instruction (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the principal to work in a collaborative manner with the parent or entity offering religious instruction to provide assistance for the student receiving religious instruction (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes that the written notice is only valid for the school year in which it has been approved (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the entity providing religious instruction to maintain attendance records and allow inspection of these records to attendance officers (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes that a student that attends a school for religious instruction shall receive the same attendance credit as the student would receive from a public school, for the same length of time (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes secular criteria as including, but not limited to (Sec. 1):

    • Number of hours of classroom instructional time;

    • Course syllabus, methods of assessment in the course; and 

    • Whether the course has been taught by a licensed teacher.

Full Bill Text

Title: Requires Schools Provide Students 2 Hours of Religious Practice Per Week

Title: Requires Schools Provide Students 2 Hours of Religious Practice Per Week

Title: Requires Schools Provide Students 2 Hours of Religious Practice Per Week

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