Last week, North Dakota Governor Dout Burgum signed House Bill No. 1136 (full text), North Dakota's version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The new law provides in part:
... [A]state or local government entity may not:
a. Substantially burden a person's exercise of religion unless applying the burden to that person's exercise of religion in a particular situation is essential to further a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling government interest;
b. Treat religious conduct more restrictively than any secular conduct of reasonably comparable risk; or
c. Treat religious conduct more restrictively than any comparable secular conduct because of alleged economic need or benefit.
ADF issued a press release announcing the signing of the bill. [Thanks to Greg Chaufen for the lead.]
