SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1623
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE LUETKENHAUS.
Read 1st time January 24, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 160, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the daily observance of one minute of silence.
Section A. Chapter 160, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 160.012, to read as follows:
160.012. 1. In order that the right of every pupil to the free exercise of religion be guaranteed within the schools and that the freedom of each individual pupil be subject to the least possible pressure from the state either to engage in, or to refrain from, religious observation on school grounds, the school board of each school district shall establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in each classroom of each school within that school district.
2. During such one-minute period of silence, the teacher responsible for each classroom shall ensure that all pupils
remain seated and silent and make no distracting display to the end that each pupil may, in the exercise of his or her
individual choice, meditate, pray, or engage in any other silent activity which does not interfere with, distract, or
impede other pupils in the like exercise of individual choice.
Missouri House of Representatives