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Backers Hopeful For School Prayer Bill Movement
News Service of Florida, March 23, 2010
With two more House committee stops in what is likely to be the last week of meetings for those two panels, the sponsor of legislation clarifying the rights of students to allow prayer at public school events is confident the bill can get to the House floor. The bill (HB 31), which prohibits school boards, school officials or teachers from "discouraging or inhibiting student delivery of inspirational messages at non-compulsory high school activity," was approved Monday in the House Civil Justice and Courts Policy Committee, but still is referred to the Education Policy Council and the Policy Council. The measure's sponsor, Rep. Greg Evers, R-Baker, said Tuesday that the chairman of both of those committees support the legislation and he's confident of getting the bill to the floor. Evers said his focus now is getting the bill moving in the Senate, where it has two committee assignments.
