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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2025 - 2026
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 3, 2024 09:49 AM |
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| From: | Representative Joseph D'Orsie |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Ensuring the Right to Free Speech at our Public Colleges |
| Soon I plan to introduce legislation that will solidify the fundamental right to free speech at our institutions of higher learning. My legislation will prohibit public institutions of higher education from utilizing so-called “bias response teams,” or “bias reporting systems.” These unconstitutional apparatuses enable the anonymous reporting of otherwise protected free speech and threaten to chill such speech as a result. This legislation will also prohibit public institutions of higher education from assessing unreasonably high security fees for guest speakers on campus and creates a private cause-of-action for those aggrieved by a violation of its provisions. Our colleges and schools should be areas of free thought and free speech, not a vacuum that favors one point of view and stifles critical thinking, debate, and a healthy expression of divergent ideas. Please consider joining me in co-sponsoring this important piece of legislation aimed at protecting the right to free speech. |
Memo Updated: December 3, 2024 09:50 AM