BATON ROUGE–Two bills that were met with backlashes in the House Education Committee still advanced on Wednesday to the House floor.

House Bill 352, authored by Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, would require the teaching of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Federalist Papers, the Gettysburg Address and the concepts of national sovereignty, American exceptionalism, globalism and immigration policy.

It would retain present law to teach civics as a prerequisite for h...