SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 718

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Reported from the Committee on Education - Elementary and Secondary, May 7, 2002, with recommendation that the House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 718 Do Pass.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

2797L.02C

AN ACT

To repeal section 171.021, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 171.021, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 171.021, to read as follows:

171.021. 1. Every school in this state which is supported in whole or in part by public moneys, during the hours while school is in session, shall display in some prominent place either upon the outside of the school building or upon a pole erected in the school yard the flag of the United States of America.

2. Every school in this state which is supported in whole or in part by public moneys shall ensure that the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America is recited in at least one scheduled class of every pupil enrolled in that school no less often than once per week. No student shall be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.





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