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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 201 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any State or local educational |
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| 6 | 6 | | agency that denies or prevents participation in constitutionally protected |
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| 7 | 7 | | prayer in schools, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY9, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. R |
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| 11 | 11 | | OUZERintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on Education and the Workforce |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any State |
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| 15 | 15 | | or local educational agency that denies or prevents par- |
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| 16 | 16 | | ticipation in constitutionally protected prayer in schools, |
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| 17 | 17 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Voluntary School Pray-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | er Protection Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •HR 201 IH |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. FUNDING CONTINGENT ON RESPECT FOR CON-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | STITUTIONALLY PROTECTED SCHOOL PRAY-2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | ER. 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (a) I |
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| 30 | 30 | | NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | sion of law, no funds made available through the Depart-5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ment of Education shall be provided to any State or local 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | educational agency that has a policy of denying, or that 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | effectively prevents participation in, constitutionally pro-8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | tected prayer in public schools by individuals on a vol-9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | untary basis. 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (b) L |
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| 38 | 38 | | IMITATION.—No person shall be required to par-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ticipate in prayer or influence the form or content of any 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | constitutionally protected prayer in public schools. 13 |
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