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Iowa’s House Bill 884 passed the House, the Senate committee, and is up for full consideration, potentially allowing chaplains to start working in schools across the state.
House lawmakers in Iowa passed HB 884 in March, a huge step forward in allowing public and charter schools to provide a chaplain — either hired or a volunteer — to support students. The House passed the bill on a vote of 57-39, according to the Iowa Capital Dispatch. Language within the bill explicitly states that schools cannot “require or coerce a student to utilize” services provided by a chaplain, nor can the position be used instead of a guidance counselor.
“We are talking about a bill that has no consideration for parental consent in having a child meet with a chaplain,” Democratic Iowa City Rep. Elinor Levin said in a statement. “We are talking about a bill that has no consideration for accreditation of a chaplain, training of a chaplain. We are talking about a bill that makes no prohibition on evangelizing within a school building.” (MORE POLLS: Did You Go to Church in March?)
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