Texas House passes Senate bill seeking to ensure "free speech" on college campuses

[TexasTowelie]

by Catherine Margin, Texas Tribune


The Texas House tentatively approved a bill Friday evening that would require public colleges and universities across the state to come up with more uniform policies on free speech.

Senate Bill 18, authored by state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, would require universities to allow any person to engage in free speech activities on campus, create disciplinary sanctions for students who interfere with the free speech activities of others, and establish a process for addressing complaints of potential free speech violations. It would still allow universities to put restrictions on the time, place and manner of free speech activities.

The bill was labeled a top priority by Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and passed unanimously out of the Senate in late March. It passed the lower chamber on Friday along a 86-58 vote, after three amendments by state Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, were added onto the measure.

Much of the criticism of campus free speech policies comes as events in recent years have some worried that conservative voices are being silenced on college campuses.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/05/17/texas-free-speech-college-campus-legislation/

[pangaia]

1. This isn't about 'free speech.' They don;t have any idea what 'free speech.' is.

They want Nazi's and other Holocaust deniers to have the right to incite violence..