The Idaho Family Policy Center has helped draft a number of controversial pieces of legislation, including a bill last week that would require verses of the Bible be read daily in all Idaho public schools, as well as laws limiting abortion and transgender rights, the Idaho Statesman previously reported.

Bills introduced by Republicans in the Texas Senate would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and allow for schools to carve out time for students to read the Bible, in the latest effort by lawmakers in states to infuse religious doctrine in public education.

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a pair of bills introduced Monday in the state Senate. Here's what's proposed.

Blaine Conzatti, the group’s president, stressed Idaho’s history with religion during Thursday’s House committee hearing, adding that an Idaho law passed in 1925 required public school Bible reading.

Idaho in 1925 enacted a law that required all schools to read daily passages from the Bible without comment or interpretation, the session records from the time show. Records also show another law was passed in 1963 to implement the same requirement, but this law was struck down that same year.

Republicans in the Texas Senate introduced a bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and have time set aside in the day for students to read the Bible. The