Ernest Bailes voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion
Signed by Governor Greg Abbott
Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion
Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits governmental entities from discriminating against child welfare services providers on the basis that such provider has declined services that conflict with their religious beliefs.
Prohibits any governmental entity from discriminating or taking adverse action against and child welfare services provider on the basis that such provider engages in any of the following (Sec. 1):
Declines or intends to decline services that conflict with their sincerely held religious beliefs;
Provides or intends to provide children under their care with a religious education; or
Declines or intends to decline to provide or facilitate abortions or contraceptives.
Specifies that no child welfare services provider may be required to provide services that conflict with their sincerely held religious beliefs (Sec. 1).
Requires a child welfare services provider who denies services to provide the individual seeking such services with at least one of the following (Sec. 1):
Written information directing the individual to the Department of Family and Protective Services web page which includes a list of child welfare services providers;
A referral to another child welfare services provider who provides the service being denied; or
Title: Authorizes Child-Placement Agencies to Deny Services Based on Religion