No. CS/HB 371
Filed under Education.
Patriotic Displays at Public Schools; Requires, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require display of portraits of George Washington & Abraham Lincoln at each public school in district; & requires DOE to select portraits & make them available to each school district.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistrict boards must now require portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in every public school building. This new duty is explicitly subject to legislative appropriation, meaning funding must be secured first.
The Department of Education is tasked with selecting the specific portraits and making them available to each school district. This centralizes the visual choice, removing local discretion over the images used.
The existing requirement to display the state motto, "In God We Trust," is retained but reorganized into a new subsection. The bill clarifies that this motto must appear in a conspicuous place at each public school.
AIRequires all district school boards to adopt rules mandating the display of the state motto in a conspicuous place at every public school and district building.
AIRequires district school boards to adopt rules mandating the display of portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in a conspicuous place at each public school, contingent on legislative appropriation.
AIRequires the Department of Education to select the specific portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and make them available to each school district.