Reps. JORDAN and MCCABE proposes the following amendment (LC-4762.WAB0017H):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 1, by striking Section 59-1-335(A)(3) and inserting:

  (3) require written parental consent before a student participates in or receives support, services, and programs provided by a volunteer school chaplain. Parents must be permitted to select a volunteer school chaplain from the list provided by the school district, which must include the chaplain's religious affiliation, if any.

Amend the bill further, SECTION 1, by striking Section 59-1-335(C) and (D) and inserting:

 (C) Any school district or charter school that adopts a volunteer school chaplains policy must publish the list of volunteer school chaplains, including any religious affiliation, on the school district or charter school's website.
 (D) "Volunteer school chaplain" means an individual affiliated with an established religious congregation in the local community who is approvedauthorized by a school district or charter school, pursuant to a policy adopted under this section, to provide support, services, or programs pursuant to subsection (A). A volunteer school chaplain may not advance, endorse, or require participation in any particular religion, denomination, or belief system while acting under such an authorization during school hours on school grounds to provide the support, services, or programs contemplated by a policy adopted pursuant to subsection (A).

Amend the bill further, SECTION 2, by striking Section 59-1-485(A)(3) and inserting:

  (3) Recognizing the historical role of the Ten Commandments accords with our nation's history and faithfully reflects the understanding of the founders of our nation with respect to the necessity of civic morality to a functional self-government. History records that James Madison, the fourth President of the United States of America, stated that "(w)e have staked the whole future of our new nation upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

Amend the bill further, SECTION 2, by striking Section 59-1-485(A)(6) and inserting:

  (6) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 was North America's first written constitution and made a Covenant with Almighty God to "form a civil body politic". This was the first purely American New World document of self-government and affirmed the link between civil society and God.

Amend the bill further, SECTION 2, by striking Section 59-1-485(B)(2) and inserting:

  (2) The Ten Commandments shall be displayed with a context statement as follows:

The History of the Ten Commandments in American Public Education

 The Ten Commandments were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries. Around the year 1688, The New England Primer became the first published American textbook and was the equivalent of a first grade reader. The New England Primer was used in public schools throughout the United States for more than onetwo hundred fifty years to teach Americans to read and contained more than forty questions about the Ten Commandments.

 The Ten Commandments were also included in public school textbooks published by educator William McGuffey, a noted university president and professor. A version of his famous McGuffey Readers was written in the early 1800s and became one of the most popular textbooks in the history of American education, selling more than one hundred million copies. Copies of the McGuffey Readers are still available today.

 The Ten Commandments also appeared in textbooks published by Noah Webster in which were widely usedavailable in American public schools along with America's first comprehensive dictionary that Webster also published. His textbook, The American Spelling Book,book, Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To Which is Subjoined A Brief History of the United States, contained the Ten Commandments and was among works that together sold more than one hundred million copies for use by public school children all across the nation and wasmany of which were still available for use in American public schools in the year 1975.

Renumber sections to conform.

Amend title to conform.