From Robert Luhn of the National Center for Science Education:

A flurry of antiscience bills proposed earlier this year have died a quiet death, notably in Indiana, Arizona, and Oklahoma. The details:

Antiscience bill dies in Indiana
http://ncse.com/news/2013/02/antiscience-bill-dies-indiana-0014726

Antiscience bill dies in Arizona
http://ncse.com/news/2013/02/antiscience-bill-dies-arizona-0014725

Antiscience bill dies in Oklahoma
http://ncse.com/news/2013/02/antiscience-bill-dies-oklahoma-0014724

From Robert Luhn of the National Center for Science Education:

Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 2 (82% in favor, 17% against). The amendment was listed on the ballot as protecting the right of citizens to pray and express their religious beliefs (rights already guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution). Nothing at the ballot box warned voters that the amendment also promises “no student shall be compelled to perform or participate in academic assignments or educational presentations that violate his or her religious beliefs.” Will creationist students use this as a permission slip to skip lessons on evolution?

A few days ago, Robert Luhn of the National Center for Science Education rounded them up:

In the last day or so, we’ve seen two bills put forward in Missouri:

“Intelligent design” bill in Missouri
http://ncse.com/news/2012/01/intelligent-design-bill-missouri-007092

“A second antievolution bill in Missouri”
http://ncse.com/news/2012/01/second-antievolution-bill-missouri-007097

… and just last week in Indiana:

“Creationist legislation in Indiana”
http://ncse.com/news/2011/12/creationist-legislation-indiana-007001

“Opposition to Indiana’s creationist bill”
http://ncse.com/news/2012/01/opposition-to-indianas-creationist-bill-007042

… and … in New Hampshire!

“Antievolution legislation in New Hampshire”
http://ncse.com/news/2011/12/antievolution-legislation-new-hampshire-006996

“Monitoring antievolution bills in New Hampshire”
http://ncse.com/news/2011/12/monitoring-antievolution-bills-new-hampshire-007000

“The Granite Geek on New Hampshire’s antievolution bills”
http://ncse.com/news/2012/01/granite-geek-new-hampshires-antievolution-bills-007041

As he announced at the end of last year, Republican Senator Josh Brecheen has, in his words, “introduced legislation requiring every publicly funded Oklahoma school to teach the debate of creation vs. evolution using the known science, even that which conflicts with Darwin’s religion.” The bill has now been pre-filed in the Senate.

The act labels “biological origins of life and biological evolution” as “controversial topics in sciences” and would require that state educational authorities “not prohibit any teacher from informing students about relevant scientific information regarding either the scientific strengths or scientific weaknesses” of these topics. (Keep in mind that evolution is not a point of controversy or debate in the scientific community.) Regular readers of this blog will recognize the bill—with its “strengths and weaknesses” language—as another attempt to undercut the teaching of evolution and bring religious ideas like creationism and “intelligent design” into the science classroom.

As the National Center for Science Education points out:

the bill requires the state board of education to adopt “standards and curricula” that echo the flawed portions of the state science standards adopted in Texas in 2009 with respect to the nature of science and, for grades 8 through 12, evolution. For example, the content of SB 554′s D1, D2, D7, D9, and D10 are identical to sections 7A, 7B, 7G, 8A, and 8B of the Texas high school biology standards—all sections that were added or amended by anti-evolution members of the Texas state board of education … in order to encourage the presentation of creationist claims in the science classroom. No fewer than 54 scientific and educational organizations opposed these revisions.