HR 3895 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Ten Commandments Defense Act of 2002

Introduced Mar 7, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Robert B. Aderholt R-AL

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 18, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMar 7, 2002
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Ten Commandments Defense Act of 2002 - Declares reserved to the States the power to display the Ten Commandments on State or local government property.

Declares that expressions of religious faith by individual persons upon State property are: (1) protected against Federal laws or regulations respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion; and (2) among those liberties of which no State may deprive any person without due process of law made in pursuance of powers reserved to the States.

Requires the courts established by the Congress to exercise judicial power in accordance with such declarations.

Cosponsors 68

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 7, 2002 to Sep 25, 2002, with 57 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-PABill ShusterOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-GABob BarrOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-COBob SchafferOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-INBrian D. KernsOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-NCCharles H. TaylorOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-MSCharles W. "Chip" PickeringOriginalMar 7, 2002
D-TXCharles W. StenholmOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-NJChristopher H. SmithOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-FLDave WeldonOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-LADavid VitterOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-TNEd BryantOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-KYEd WhitfieldOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-VAEric CantorOriginalMar 7, 2002
R-OKErnest J. Istook Jr.OriginalMar 7, 2002
R-OKFrank D. LucasOriginalMar 7, 2002
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 18, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
  2. Mar 7, 2002Introduced in House
  3. Mar 7, 2002Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues.

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