Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that restricts required closures of religious services during a declared state of emergency in Missouri.

Highlights:

• Prohibits the state or its political subdivisions from imposing restrictions upon religious places of worship during states of emergency with the intent or effect of making religious services impractical (Sec. A).

• Specifies that the provisions of this Act do not apply in the case of emergency evacuation orders involving imminent danger from flooding, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, terrorist threats, civil unrest, or hazardous material incidents that apply to the general area of the place of worship (Sec. A).

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