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Re: text of new Tenn anti-evol. bill
Ruby Rohrlich (rohrlich@GWIS2.CIRC.GWU.EDU)
Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:57:35 -0500
We need another Clarence Darrow. Ruby Rohrlich
On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, John Cole. wrote:
> Subject: Text of TN Senate Bill (fwd)
> To: John R Cole <jrc@tei.umass.edu>
> Cc: "Laurie R. Godfrey" <lgodfrey@anthro.umass.edu>
> Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960226133952.12331H-100000@crl6.crl.com>
> To: ncse@crl.com
> Subject: Text of TN Senate Bill
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> Filed for intro on 01/31/96
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> SENATE BILL 3229
> By Burks
> AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section
> 49-5-501 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10, relative to the
> teaching of the theory of evolution.
> BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF
> TENNESSEE:
> SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter
> 6, Part 10, is amended by adding the foIlowing new section
> thereto:
> >>>> Section 49-6-1012. No teacher or administrator in a
> local education agency shall teach the theory of evolution
> except as a scientific theory. Any teacher or administrator
> teaching such theory as fact commits insubordination, as
> defined in Section 49-5-501(a)(6), and
> shall be dismissed or suspended as provided in Section 49-5-511.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section
> 49-5-501(a)(6), is amended by redesignating subdivisions (C)
> and (D) to be subdivisions (D) and (E) and by adding a new
> subdivision (C), as follows:
> (C) Violation of the provisions of Section 49-6-1012,
> relative to the teaching of evolution;
> SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
> law, the public welfare requiring it.
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> Expected to pass nearly unanimouasly by mid-March
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> --Cheers,
> John R. Cole
> (more info from NCSE@crl.com or its pubs......) Sign up--the fight did not
> end in 1925 or 1987 court rooms!
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> --Boundary (ID McKcFujw+X6K8eE6gOdmgQ)--
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