Post-Enactment Legislative Narrowing of State RFRAs

[Douglas Laycock]

Illinois amended its RFRA to exclude challenges to the expansion of O'Hare Airport.  (They were demolishing old cemeteries.)  Florida amended its RFRA to exclude some claims concerning the niqab -- at least excluding veiled photographs on driver's licenses, but I don't remember the scope. 

Quoting Christopher Lund <Lund at mc.edu>:

> Quick question to the listserv:
>
> Does anyone know of any instance where a state RFRA was enacted and
> then afterwards legislatively narrowed in some way (i.e., narrowed to
> cut back on a state court's interpretation that seemed too broad, or
> narrowed to reduce protections in a particular area like prisons or
> zoning)?  Does anyone know of any bills that would have done such a
> thing?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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> Christopher C. Lund
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> Mississippi College School of Law
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Douglas Laycock
Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
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