A bill that would have required Texas public schools to display the Ten Commandments has failed
Senate Bill 1515 was effectively killed early Wednesday morning after House lawmakers did not meet a midnight deadline for a vote that would have advanced the bill for a third and final passage. The bill, authored by Republican state Sen. Phil King, requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in a “conspicuous place” in each classroom in a “size and typeface that is legible to a person with average vision from anywhere in the classroom,” CNN previously reported.
The legislative session ends on May 29, and there is still time for legislators to use procedural tactics to bring up the bill again. But it now faces a more difficult path. The legislation has faced criticism after passing the state Senate last month. “Parents should be able to decide what religious materials their child should learn, not the ,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas said in a statement last month.
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