More than 60 bills proposing Charlie Kirk memorials and policies have been introduced in over 20 states since his 2025 death — including Kansas allowing college students to sue schools over free-speech violations and Tennessee encouraging teachers to highlight religion's positive impacts in history. The bills vary in scope from renaming roads to establishing official remembrance days, and have drawn controversy even from some Republicans, with Kansas's Democratic governor vetoing the free-speech bill before the state legislature overrode her. The AP's analysis used bill-tracking software to document what it characterizes as a coordinated effort to enshrine Kirk's conservative activism through state law.