The Texas House gave the initial approval on Saturday to legislate all semesters for public schools Ten CommandmentsWith legislators vote 88-49 on Senate Driver 10 (SB10), according to Associated Press.
Newsweek The participant arrived in Bill, the sponsorship of MP Candy Nobel via email on Saturday for comment.
Why do it matter
Texas runs nearly 9,100 public schools serving nearly 6 million students, making it the second largest educational system in the country.
The passage of the procedure may lead to immediate legal challenges and can affect similar efforts in other countries. If a year, Texas will join Louisiana Arkansas as a prolonged states with similar requirements, although Louisiana’s law is suspended after a federal judge found it.Unconstitutional“
The timing coincides with the latter supreme court The decisions that allowed public funds to flow to religious entities, although the court has already completed the Catholic Catholic School funded by the public sector in Oklahoma on Thursday with a vote 4-4.
What do you know
The draft law supported by Republicans requires to publish a 16 -inch label (41 in 41th place in 41th place in 51) or a framed version of a specific English version of the wills in each semester.
Democratic lawmakers in vain tried on Saturday to amend the draft law to include other religious texts or multiple translations of commandments, with all amendments failed to adopt them.
Texas lawmakers have developed another religious scale at the same time that allows educational areas to provide daily prayer time or read the religious text during school hours.
In 2005, ruler Greg AbbottAfter holding the position of the state prosecutor, he successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Texas could maintain a memorial for ten commandments on the land of Capitol, which indicates his long support for such offers.
What people say
SB10 Participant sponsored by Representative Candy Noble: “The focus of the draft law is to look at what is historically important to our nation in terms of educational and judicial.”
Republican MP Brent Money: “We must encourage our students to read and study their Bible every day. Our children in our public schools need prayer, and they need to read the Bible, now more than ever.”
Democratic Representative James Talarico indicated that legislators were working on the weekend to pass legislation that required the display of the Ten Commandments: “Remember on Saturday, to keep him sacred.”
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What happens after that
It is expected that the Republican -controlled room will retain its final vote during the next few days before sending the procedure to the ruler’s office, where he indicated that he would sign him in the law.
Reports from the Associated Press contributed to this article.
