The Arkansas Senate passed a new bill tonight, and the House is expected to take it up tomorrow. The text is here: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2015/2015R/Amendments/sb975-S1.pdf
My guess is that the new version of the Arkansas RFRA bill -- which is intended to more closely mirror the federal RFRA than the earlier version of the Arkansas RFRA bill -- will not satisfy most opponents of the earlier bill. A principal source of concern about adopting new state RFRAs today is the Hobby Lobby interpretation of the federal RFRA extending exemption rights to commercial businesses, so mirroring the federal RFRA doesn't do much for the opponents. The question is whether it does enough for Gov. Hutchinson to avoid the Indiana firestorm moving to Arkansas if Indiana adds a civil rights carve-out and Arkansas does not ... - Jim On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Marty Lederman <lederman.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/arkansas-indiana-religious-freedom-hutchinson-pence.html > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Friedman, Howard M. < > howard.fried...@utoledo.edu> wrote: > >> The Arkansas legislature today passed a state RFRA. While national >> media is reporting that the bill is similar to Indiana's, in fact it is >> broader in several ways. See >> http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2015/03/arkansas-legislature-passes-rfra-law.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see >> http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw >> >> Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as >> private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are >> posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or >> wrongly) forward the messages to others. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are > posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or > wrongly) forward the messages to others. >
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