| SB1074 Higher education; student organizations. (Obenshain) | ||||
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| Higher education; student organizations. Authorizes religious or political student organizations or groups to determine that the core functions of ordering the organization's internal affairs, selecting the organization's leaders and members, defining the organization's doctrines, and resolving the organization's disputes are in furtherance of the organization's religious or political mission and that only persons committed to that mission should conduct those activities. The bill also prohibits public institutions of higher education that have granted recognition of and access to any student organization or group from discriminating against any such student organization or group that limits its core functions to persons committed to its mission. | ||||
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| Full Text of Bill: 13103425D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 23 a section numbered 23-9.2:12 as follows: § 23-9.2:12. Student organizations; rights and recognition. A. A religious or political student organization may determine that ordering the organization's internal affairs, selecting the organization's leaders and members, defining the organization's doctrines, and resolving the organization's disputes are in furtherance of the organization's religious or political mission and that only persons committed to that mission should conduct such activities. B. No public institution of higher education that has granted recognition of and access to any student organization or group shall discriminate against any such student organization or group that exercises its rights pursuant to subsection A. | ||||
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