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This law was last updated on Sep 29, 2016
HB 586
Failed to Pass
Feb 8, 2016
Primary Sponsors: 1
Total Sponsors: 1
HB 586 would allow members of the judiciary and boards of supervisors to refuse to officiate rites of matrimony if such an action would violate a sincerely held religious belief.
No Supreme Court Justice or any judge of the Court of Appeals, a circuit court, chancery court, county court, justice court, or any member of a board of supervisors would face adverse action for refusing to officiate a marriage that violated their religious beliefs.
STATUS
Similar to HB 1342.
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