Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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An act to authorize local school boards to permit the released-time religious instruction of pupils; To require school boards to allow those students desiring released-time religious instruction to participate in the instruction off-site for at least one hour, one day each week; To prohibit the school district from providing or facilitating released-time religious instruction on school premises; To permit local school boards to make arrangements with the persons in charge of the released-time religious instruction as the board deems necessary and advisable; To provide that students shall not be penalized or considered absent from the school for purposes of attending released-time religious instruction; To provide that students who do not participate in released-time religious instruction shall continue in the regular course of daily instruction; To provide that released-time religious instruction shall be given without expense to any local school board; To amend section 37-13-91, mississippi code of 1972, in conformity to the preceding provisions; And for related purposes.
