First Amendment Defense Act
Anti-LGBTQ+ Stand-in bill
A model bill that first appeared in 2015. 84 bills in 20 states were matched to it. The full story: author, spread, ads, funding and lawsuits.
- Subject
- Religious exemptions
- First appeared
- 2015
- Where its text comes from
- Stand-in bill. Its text is taken from an introduced bill used in place of a model-bill document: US HB 2802 (2015).
- Credited to
- Family Research Council
- Years filed
- 2013–2026
- States
- Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, U.S. Congress, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming
Match levels
- Near-verbatim 16 bills
- Derived 43 bills
- Shares provisions 25 bills
- 0 bills
2 matched bills were filed before the template first appeared (2015) and are marked in the lists below. They may be among the template's sources rather than copies of it. How to read these pages
Bills matched to this model bill
Derived (43, continued)
These bills are built on the template's text.
| Bill | State | Introduced | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| US HB 4249 (2025) | U.S. Congress | Failed | |
| US HB 4553 (2025) | U.S. Congress | Pending | |
| US HB 4754 (2025) | U.S. Congress | Pending | |
| US HB 4779 (2025) | U.S. Congress | Pending | |
| US HB 5166 (2025) | U.S. Congress | Pending | |
| US HB 8495 (2026) | U.S. Congress | Pending | |
| US HB 8595 (2026) | U.S. Congress | Pending | |
| US HB 9495 (2026) | U.S. Congress | Pending | |
| US HB 3133 (2013) Filed before the template | U.S. Congress | Failed |
Shares provisions (25)
These bills borrow some of the template's provisions.
| Bill | State | Introduced | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA HB 707 (2015) | Louisiana | Failed | |
| GA SB 284 (2016) | Georgia | Failed | |
| IA SF 2043 (2016) | Iowa | Failed | |
| IA SF 2044 (2016) | Iowa | Failed | |
| SD HB 1107 (2016) | South Dakota | Failed | |
| VA HB 773 (2016) | Virginia | Failed | |
| SD SB 149 (2017) | South Dakota | Enacted | |
| MO SB 1022 (2018) | Missouri | Failed | |
| KY HB 524 (2021) | Kentucky | Failed | |
| SC H 3878 (2021) | South Carolina | Failed | |
| US HB 1440 (2021) | U.S. Congress | Failed | |
| KY HB 495 (2022) | Kentucky | Failed | |
| AR HB 1615 (2023) | Arkansas | Enacted | |
| IA SF 212 (2023) | Iowa | Failed | |
| MI HB 4075 (2023) | Michigan | Failed | |
| SC H 3801 (2023) | South Carolina | Failed | |
| ID H 578 (2024) | Idaho | Enacted | |
| MS HB 1521 (2024) | Mississippi | Failed | |
| MS SB 2722 (2024) | Mississippi | Failed | |
| US HB 8771 (2024) | U.S. Congress | Failed | |
| AR HB 1669 (2025) | Arkansas | Enacted | |
| MS SB 2516 (2025) | Mississippi | Failed | |
| VA HB 2405 (2025) | Virginia | Failed | |
| WY HB 149 (2025) | Wyoming | Failed | |
| MS SB 2342 (2026) | Mississippi | Failed |
Data as of November 3, 2026.