Sponsor: Elijah Haahr, District 134

This bill establishes the Student Religious Liberties Act, which prohibits a school district from discriminating against a student or parent on the basis of religious viewpoint or expression. Religious viewpoints must be treated like secular viewpoints on an otherwise permissible subject. Students may express their religious beliefs in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments, to be judged on ordinary academic standards. Students must be allowed to pray or engage in religious activities before, during, and after school to the same extent they engage in nonreligious activities and must be given access to facilities as other noncurricular groups, including the ability to announce  or advertise meetings. Students must be permitted to wear and display religious messages and symbols to the same extent other messages and symbols are permitted.

The Missouri Alliance for Freedom supports this bill because it promotes our mission of individual liberty.

This bill has passed both the House and the Senate. It is now on the Governor's desk awaiting his signature.