February 25, 2025
It’s crossover week, which means bills that made it through committee are exchanged between the House and the Senate. Please take a few minutes to contact your representatives to let them know how you feel about these bills that impact church:state separation. Here’s how to find and contact your legislators.
- Oppose HB2927: Requires open call at school board meetings and must be in first 30 minutes, which allows those with a culture war agenda to derail and disrupt meetings.
- Oppose HB2191: Changes zoning restrictions to allow churches to build housing on their properties, only requiring 40% of housing to be low-income. This bill is likely a gift to a particular mega-church that’s encroaching on a low-density neighborhood.
- Oppose HB2216: Forces taxpayers to fund fake “pregnancy clinics” that are a front to push anti-choice propaganda based on a specific religious perspective.
- Oppose HB2547: Bars state funding to any healthcare provider that promotes or performs abortion, even to save the mother’s life.
- Oppose HB2126: Would require health care provider to give parents of minors access to electronic data, including records of procedures that do not require parental consent. Could keep minors from accessing contraceptive, sexual health, gender-affirming care.
- Oppose HB2670: Requires health education in grades 7-8 to include fetal development, but doesn’t include info about birth control, abortion, consent, etc.
- Oppose HB2681: Adds requirements to medical providers before and after prescribing abortion medication, including that it must be prescribed at an in-person visit. Note: there’s a strike everything amendment which removes anti-abortion legislation.
- Oppose HB2724/SB1321: Requires schools to cooperate with indoctrination/recruitment efforts by “patriotic youth groups,” including presentations during instructional time, posters hanging in schools, etc. Schools cannot deny a group/speaker based on mention of religion.
- Oppose HB2728: Allows courts to order DUI defendants to attend a religiously based program.
Thank you for defending church and state separation.