A House bill prohibiting a school district from punishing an employee for engaging in private religious expression was approved by the Senate Education committee Tuesday.
Under the legislation, while a school district employee is on duty, the employee can engage in religious expression and discussions and share religious materials with other employees in the same manner that employees are allowed to engage in nonreligious expression and discussions.
School employees can work as a sponsor of student religious groups and help students to plan meetings and activities to the same extent as employee sponsors of nonreligious student groups.
