Source: NPR
Students chant outside the Florida House of Representatives chamber in Tallahassee Wednesday. Lawmakers passed a bill that same day that would require public schools to display the motto “In God We Trust.”
Mark Wallheiser/AP
State legislators in Florida came together on Wednesday — the same day student activists gathered outside the House chamber in Tallahassee to demand stricter gun laws, one week after the school massacre in Parkland — to pass a measure related to schools, but not guns. HB 839 would require every public school in Florida to display “in a conspicuous place” the state motto, “In God We Trust.”
House members passed the legislation 97 to 10.
It is unclear what will happen in the Senate, where a bill using identical language was introduced last month.
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