Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 108th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

WJR JonesSponsor

167 cosponsors · 4 D, 163 R

RBR Blunt TDR DeLay JDR DeMint GGR Gutknecht RHD Hall RHR Hayes MHR Hart MKR Kennedy JPR Pitts MPR Pence CSR Smith MSR Souder DWR Weldon RBR Burr VGR Goode JHR Hefley JHR Hostettler SKR King RLR Lewis JMR Miller CNR Norwood CPR Pickering JSR Sullivan EWR Whitfield FWR Wolf KCR Calvert JDR Doolittle JDR Duncan EIR Istook SMR Myrick GMR Miller PTR Tiberi RWR Wicker WAR Akin RBR Baker CBR Ballenger TFR Franks JGR Gibbons MGR Green PHR Hoekstra FLR Lucas JMR Mica RPR Paul JRR Ryun PSR Sessions JSR Shimkus JWR Wilson CCR Cannon LCR Combest ECR Cantor GRR Radanovich JSR Sweeney BSR Shuster BTR Tauzin RBR Bartlett DBR Burton NDR Deal EFD Faleomavaega JDR Hayworth HHR Hyde PKR King APR Putnam TDR Davis BJR Janklow KBR Brady MBR Burgess LDR Diaz-Balart MFR Foley TFR Feeney BGR Goodlatte WHR Herger DMR Manzullo JWR Weller JGR Gresham Barrett RRR Renzi TTR Tancredo PTR Toomey JBR Barton JBR Boehner JCR Carter TCR Cole JAR Ann Davis BOR Otter IRR Ros-Lehtinen HBR Brown SCR Chabot CCR Cox BCR Cubin JAR Ann Emerson PER English EFR Fletcher JFR Forbes SJR Johnson JKR Kingston GNR Nethercutt JSR Shadegg ESR Schrock CTR Taylor MTR Thornberry DVR Vitter JWR Walsh SBR Bachus MBR Bilirakis BBR Beauprez SGR Graves SGR Garrett RKR Keller TMR McCotter TRR Reynolds HCR Coble SMR McInnis JPR Peterson DRR Rohrabacher MSR Simpson LTR Terry DYR Young DCR Camp MDR Diaz-Balart DHR Hunter KHR Harris DIR Issa JNR Nussle DRR Rehberg MRR Rogers JFR Flake RLR LaHood BNR Ney MRR Rogers CWR Weldon MCR Collins PCR Crane JHR Hensarling JMR McCrery MMR Musgrave JRR Ramstad ESR Shaw HBR Bonilla GBR Brown-Waite DCR Cunningham JDR Dunn KGR Granger MOR Oxley RPR Pombo JBR Bonner JCR Culberson TER Everett EGR Gallegly BMR McKeon ANR Northup JSR Saxton ACR Crenshaw DHR Hastings JIR Isakson PRR Ryan MBR Blackburn JKR Kline JBR Boozman JMR McHugh TTR Tiahrt NRD Rahall MTR Turner TLR Latham CPD Peterson RBR Bishop ZWR Wamp RAR Alexander HRR Rogers

13 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to state that churches and other houses of worship shall not lose such designation because of the content, preparation, or presentation of any homily, sermon, teaching, dialectic, or other presentation made during religious services or gatherings.