Document Type
Peach Sheet
Abstract
The Act supplements the protection of religious exercise by requiring government actions that could burden religious practices to meet a “compelling interest” test, mirroring a federal counterpart bill from 1993. The Act creates a cause of action against the state government for substantially burdening a person’s free exercise of religion without a compelling interest. The government must now clear this high legal standard before it may legally enforce laws or actions that substantially burden someone’s religious beliefs.
Recommended Citation
Jay Berryman Crawford & Nancy Guadalupe Ramirez,
SB 36 - Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
42
Ga. St. U. L. Rev.
223
(2025).
Available at:
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol42/iss1/20