Texas House joins Senate in bill requiring Ten Commandments
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The Texas House of Representatives voted 82-46 to require the Ten Commandments be posted in public school classrooms across the state.
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Texas would require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a Republican proposal that cleared a major vote Saturday and would make the state the nation’s largest to impose such a mandate.
Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the legislation. The state's requirement of a Ten Commandments display follows similar laws in Louisiana and Arkansas.
The bill requires Texas public schools to “display in a conspicuous place in each classroom ... a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments.”
A bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom in Texas cleared a key legislative hurdle Sunday and is closer to heading to Gov.
To pass a bill requiring the 10 Commandments be posted in every classroom in Texas, the House of Representatives violated one of those commandments. On the floor of the House, Rep. Jim Talarico, D-Austin, asked the bill’s author, Rep.
A Texas bill that would order the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms was advanced by the Senate, sending the legislation to the governor.
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