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From bills that aim to raise low reading scores to remedies for students using cellphones in class, lawmakers will spend the second half of session considering bills from the opposite chamber with fresh eyes and advancing initiatives with widespread support.

Senate Bill 1 proposes retaining more students who don’t pass the state’s reading exam by the end of third grade.

Legislators discuss the importance of Senate Bill 1 and what they have planned for 2023.

Senate Bill 1 originally included $30 million for community mental health clinics. Instead, funding will be part of the state budget debate.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs ask the federal judge to bar the new law from being enforced against members of The Satanic Temple. Court records show there are more than 11,000 members in Indiana.

Indiana’s seven abortion clinics were to lose their state licenses under the ban — which only permits abortions within its narrow exceptions to take place in hospitals or outpatient surgical centers.

The judge wrote “there is reasonable likelihood that this significant restriction of personal autonomy offends the liberty guarantees of the Indiana Constitution” and that the clinics will prevail in the lawsuit.

Medication abortions work for most people who are under 11 weeks pregnant, yet many states have enacted legislation to ban or limit access to telehealth abortions.

Abortion rights have been a subject of politics and policy for decades. But Jude Wilkinson said she experienced first-hand how restrictive abortion laws can affect your health.

Protesters gathered around Indianapolis throughout the day Thursday and into the evening, stopping at the governor’s mansion, Monument Circle and Tarkington Park.