Legislative Update 3/4/24
Missouri Equity Education Partnership-Action mobilizes those who support diversity, equity, and inclusion for ALL! Please see the calls to action outlined below and join us in bending the arc towards equity ensuring Missouri schools are a safe, welcoming space where folks can learn all things
.These folks keep coming back with the same old bills, the same old rhetoric, but their support is not growing; their ideas are not getting better. In fact, their own ranks are also starting to see that extreme edges are scary places to be. Do not let them wear us down. Do not fall for their insinuations that speaking truth to power is fruitless. We are planting seeds every time we speak in a hearing, visit with an elected official, write an email, submit testimony, or make a phone call.
What do you get when you plant a lot of seeds?
An orchard FULL of fruit.
Keep planting seeds.
THIS WEEK’S CALLS TO ACTION
Join us in Jefferson City on Wednesday, March 6 to testify before House and Senate Committees opposing three bills.
1. Sign up here to testify to protect drag performances, or Submit written testimony if you cannot attend the House Special Committee on Public Policy in person March 6, 12 noon Joint Hearing Room 117.
HB 1650 (Christensen) will classify businesses that allow drag performances as sexually explicit businesses, and those participating in performances open to the public at a child-friendly venue will be subject to felony charges.
2. The Senate Select Committee on Empowering Parents and Children will hear two bills in the Senate Lounge at 8 am
SB 918 (Hoskins) is ANOTHER attempt to censor history.
SB 819 (Ben Brown) weakens public schools by modifying homeschool requirements and definitions as well as establishing FLEX schools.
Only in-person testimony will be part of the official record, so if you cannot travel, please contact the committee to make your voice heard.
3. Higher education students, please use this link to share the importance of clubs and organizations in your life. HB 1518 (Hudson), which will allow some students to face discrimination, could be taken up on the House floor this coming week.
