Amendment H-8212 to HF 2559
Relating to appropriations to the justice system
Ruled out of order · March 22, 2022
Filed March 22, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a rule requiring the Iowa state civil rights commission to use a strict scrutiny standard when reviewing discrimination complaints involving religion. This means the commission can only allow a burden on religious practice if it is essential to achieve a specific, compelling state interest using the least restrictive method possible.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 19, line 24, after “positions” by inserting “, and the Iowa state civil rights commission shall apply a strict scrutiny standard to any discrimination complaint involving religion as a protected class, so that no person in Iowa is substantially burdened in their free exercise of religion, unless applying the burden to the person’s exercise of religion in a particular situation is essential to further a specific compelling state interest in the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling state interest”