Bill on Bawdy Cheers Faces a Dim Future
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 16, 2005
AUSTIN, Tex., May 15 (AP) - A bill approved by the State House to ban bawdy cheerleading routines will apparently not be passed by the Senate this year.
The legislation prohibits "overtly sexually suggestive" cheerleading routines at school events. It does not define "sexually suggestive."
The House approved the legislation on May 3 and sent it to the Senate Education Committee, where it is expected to die.
"We have some very important work to do in the next two weeks, and that's not one of them," said State Senator Florence Shapiro, a Republican from Plano who is chairwoman of the Education Committee.
State Representative Al Edwards, a Houston Democrat and sponsor of the bill, has argued that suggestive routines are a distraction and result in pregnancies, dropouts, and the contraction of herpes and H.I.V
