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HB 131 Enacted

Higher educational institutions, public; reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs, etc.

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Public institutions of higher education; reasonable accommodations for the religious beliefs and practices of individual students. Requires each public institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations, as defined in the bill, for the religious beliefs and practices of individual students with regard to admissions, class attendance, and the scheduling of examinations and work assignments and to provide and describe in the institution's student handbook or an equivalent document and in the institution's faculty handbook or an equivalent document a grievance procedure for any student to seek redress when the student believes that he has been unreasonably denied such reasonable accommodations for his religious beliefs and practices.

Chamber
House
Introduced
Jan 3, 2026
Last action
Apr 6, 2026 — Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074)
Session
2026
Momentum
84 · Very high