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Senate Education Committee 1
Amendment No. 1 to SB0723
Gresham
Signature of Sponsor
AMEND Senate Bill No. 723 House Bill No. 538*
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by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting instead the following:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 7, is amended by adding
Sections 2 through 9 of this act as a new part.
SECTION 2. This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Campus Free Speech
Protection Act."
SECTION 3. The requirements of this part shall apply to every public institution of
higher education in this state.
SECTION 4.
(a) The general assembly finds and declares that public institutions of higher
education in Tennessee are not immune from the sweep of the First Amendment to the
United States Constitution or Article I, Section 19, of the Tennessee Constitution, which
guarantees freedom of speech and expression.
(b) It is the intent of the general assembly that the public institutions of higher
education embrace a commitment to the freedom of speech and expression for all
students and all faculty.
(c) It is further the intent of the general assembly that public institutions of higher
education, including their faculty, shall not require students or other faculty to adopt or to
indicate their adherence to beliefs or orthodoxies on any particular political,
philosophical, religious, social, or other such subject, although institutions may require
students and faculty to conform their conduct to the requirements of law and policy.