Virginia Delegate Dave LaRock (R-Clarke, Frederick, and Loudoun Counties) filed House Resolution 431, The Campus Free Speech Resolution, based on the Goldwater Institute's model legislation. Stanley Kurtz writes in National Review: Since the Virginia House of Delegates is nearing the end of its current session, Delegate LaRock is offering a resolution conveying the sense of the legislature, to be followed up next session by detailed legislation based on the Goldwater model. As Delegate LaRock put it in a press release, “This resolution will put down a marker as a precursor for next session when I will follow up with legislation to assure that universities take this seriously.” Explaining his
Illinois is the latest state to see an effort to restore free speech on campus, as Stanley Kurtz reports in National Review: Illinois state representative Peter Breen (R., Lombard) has just introduced HB 2939, which would create the Illinois Campus Free Speech Act. Breen’s bill is based on the model campus free-speech legislation I recently co-authored along with Jim Manley and Jonathan Butcher of the Goldwater Institute. Upon introducing the bill, Breen said: With everything going on nationally right now, this is a timely bill that will serve as a reminder that the First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech and expression. Our public institutions of higher learning have historically e
Stanley Kurtz, co-author of the Goldwater Institute's legislation to restore free speech on campus, is due to testify before the Florida State House on the merits of the policy. Kurtz reports in National Review: I will be testifying before the Postsecondary Education Subcommittee of the Florida State House next Thursday, February 23, on the model campus free speech legislation I recently co-authored with James Manley and Jonathan Butcher of the Goldwater Institute. My testimony comes at the invitation of Representative Michael Bileca, Chair of Florida’s House Education Committee. After the hearing, I will be addressing the same topic at Florida’s James Madison Institute. Read more at: http:/
North Carolina is moving toward enacting campus free speech legislation based on the Goldwater Institute model, and the effort has a strong supporter in Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest. Stanley Kurtz reports in National Review: North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest has just announced his intention to work with members of the General Assembly to pass the Restore Campus Free Speech Act, a bill designed to protect freedom of speech within University of North Carolina system. North Carolina’s Restore Campus Free Speech Act is closely based on the model campus free speech legislation I published last week in collaboration with Arizona’s Goldwater Institute. I have been working with Dan
