House Committee Passes Good Bill Affirming Religious Freedom at Public Schools
On Tuesday the House Education Committee passed S.B. 223, the Religious Rights at Public Schools Act of 2025.
This good bill by Sen. Mark Johnson (R — Little Rock) and Rep. Alyssa Brown (R — Heber Springs) affirms public school students’ and teachers’ religious liberties.
The bill identifies and upholds religious freedoms that are already protected by state and federal law — such as the right to pray, discuss religion, or read the Bible during free time at school.
The bill also helps make sure that religious expression is treated equally to other types of speech at school.
This will help prevent schools from squelching anyone’s religious liberties.
When it comes to religious liberty, public schools have been a battleground for more than 60 years. It’s important that we stand up for religious freedom at school. S.B. 223 is a good bill that helps do exactly that.
The bill now goes to the entire Arkansas House of Representatives for consideration.
You can read the Religious Rights at Public Schools Act here.
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Senate Committee Backs Bill to Protect Women and Children from Abortion Drugs
On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a good bill clarifying that abortion by fraud is a crime in Arkansas.
Right now abortion in Arkansas is generally prohibited except to save the life of the mother, and it is illegal to deliver abortion-inducing drugs into the state. Arkansas also has laws prohibiting fetal homicide.
However, Arkansas has no specific law addressing situations in which a person secretly gives abortion drugs like RU-486 to a pregnant woman.
H.B. 1551 by Rep. Jimmy Gazaway (R — Paragould) makes it a felony to try to kill an unborn child by secretly giving a pregnant woman abortion-inducing drugs without her knowledge or consent.
In 2022 abortion drugs were secretly placed in Catherine Herring’s water in order to cause the death of her unborn child.
Ms. Herring suffered serious health complications and had to be hospitalized as a result. Since then, states have begun proposing laws like H.B. 1551 to prevent this type of crime.
H.B. 1551 is a good bill that will help protect women and unborn children from dangerous abortion drugs. It now goes to the entire Arkansas Senate for consideration.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.