Sponsor: Rep Kurt Bahr, District 102
Recommendation: Support

This legislation is eligible to be graded in the Missouri Alliance for Freedom scorecard.

The Missouri Alliance for Freedom supports legislation athat gives parents the ability and empowers them to best raise, educate, and care for their children.

This bill specifies that the liberty of a parent to direct the upbringing, education, and care of his or her child is a fundamental right. The State of Missouri and any political subdivision of the state is prohibited from infringing on this right without demonstrating a compelling governmental interest

Any law or policy must be narrowly tailored and by the least restrictive means to achieve the interest. These provisions apply to all laws of the state, whether adopted before or after the enactment of these provisions. Any law adopted after the enactment of these provisions is exempt only if the law explicitly excludes the application by reference to these provisions.