Georgias colleges and universities would be required to expand areas designated for free speech under legislation filed in the state House on Thursday.

House Bill 471, byRep. Buzz Brockway, R-Lawrenceville, says public colleges and universities may notlimit or restrict a students expression or discipline a student because others oppose the students speech.

Any member of the university community who wishes to engage in expressive activity shall be permitted to do so, the bill says, in anygenerally accessible outdoor areas of campuses.

But the bill also says schools may not deny agroup of students the right to form an organization ordiscriminate against a student organization based on the expression of the organization.

Brockway said the bill includes protections for schools to combat harassment or bullying and from organizations like the KKK from forming on campuses.

They have these tinyfree speech zones, that gives ahecklers veto to anyone who opposes what is being said, Brockway said.

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Bill requires free speech on campus for all - Atlanta Journal Constitution