Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes protections for lawyers who reject clients based on a religious exemption.

Highlights:

• Prohibits a state agency that issues a license or regulates a business occupation or profession from adopting rules, regulations, or policies that limits an applicant's ability to maintain or renew a license based on sincerely held religious beliefs (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that first responders are exempt from these protections in order to ensure the standard care or practice of the applicable business, occupation, or profession are satisfied (Sec. 1).

• Establishes that this act will become law upon a two-thirds passage in both the state house and senate (Sec. 2).

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