Wrap: Lamar Republican Senator Ed Emery is sponsoring a bill that would require students to use the locker rooms and restrooms assigned to them by biological sex. Schools would be required to create different facilities for students who identify with a gender opposite their biological sex.
"I took an oath to the Constitution," said Sen. Ed Emery, R-Lamar. "I still believe this is an unconstitutional provision and so I still, regardless of the work that's been done to try to avoid the pitfalls of the other states, I still believe we as a body should reject it."
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on bills proposed by Senators Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, and Ed Emery, R-Lamar, would prohibit public higher education institutions from denying religious student associations benefits available to other student associations.
Senator Ed Emery, R-Lamar, opposed the bill. He suggested bringing the issue to a vote so that Missourians could decide for themselves whether or not they wanted an increased fuel tax.
Schaaf, along with Sens. Bob Onder and Ed Emery, objected to that provision because they said it didn't belong in the appropriations process and that there was no public hearing in 2015.
Schaaf, along with Sens. Bob Onder and Ed Emery, objected to that provision because they said it didn't belong in the appropriations process and that there was no public hearing in 2015.
The bills proposed by Senators Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, and Ed Emery, R-Lamar, would prohibit public higher education institutions from denying religious student associations benefits available to other student associations.
The bills proposed by Senators Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, and Ed Emery, R-Lamar, would prohibit public higher education institutions from denying religious student associations benefits available to other student associations.