The Note: Coming Up Next In Indiana

ByABC News
April 2, 2015, 8:39 AM

— -- NOTABLES

HAPPENING TODAY -- INDIANA LEGISLATORS MEETING TO CLARIFY "RELIGIOUS FREEDOM" LAW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Indiana will meet this morning to debate a bill clarifying the state's new "religious freedom" law, which critics have said gives business owners the right to discriminate against members of the LGBT community. Deliberations begin at 9:30 a.m. Eastern with four members of each party making up the conference. Once the conference agrees on the bill's language, it will go to the legislature for a vote, according to ABC's ANDREW FIES and BEN CANDEA. http://abcn.ws/1Cz39da

HAPPENED YESTERDAY -- ARKANSAS GOVERNOR ASKS LEGISLATURE TO CHANGE "RELIGIOUS FREEDOM" BILL: Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson asked his state's legislature to alter a religious-freedom bill sent to his desk before he will sign it. "I ask that changes be made in the legislature, and I've asked that the leaders of the General Assembly to recall the bill so that it can be amended to reflect the terms of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act," Hutchinson said yesterday. The governor noted that the bill applies to corporations and litigation between private citizens or entities, neither of which are included in the federal law signed by Bill Clinton, ABC's CHRIS GOOD writes. http://abcn.ws/1OZlJSb

EXPLAINER -- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDIANA'S LAW AND ALL THE OTHERS. Gov. Mike Pence and other supporters of Indiana's "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" have made a simple point in defense of their law -- that a slew of other states, plus the federal government, have the same law on the books and that Barack Obama as a state senator voted for it in Illinois. So what's the difference between all the rest of the laws -- on the federal books and in 19 other states -- and the two more recent, similar bills in Indiana and Arkansas? ABC's CHRIS GOOD breaks it down: http://abcn.ws/1MABCji

2016: THE NEWEST NUMBERS

--HILLARY CLINTON'S POPULARITY DECLINES--BUT STILL BEATS HER GOP RIVALS'. Hillary Clinton's personal popularity has dropped to virtually an even split in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, marking her potential vulnerability as a presidential candidate. Yet she still surpasses her possible Republican rivals in favorability and vote preference alike, ABC's GARY LANGER notes. The number of Americans who express a favorable opinion of Clinton is down from a record 67 percent just over than two years ago to 49 percent now -- its lowest since her unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Nearly as many, 46 percent, see her unfavorably, up 20 percentage points from its low during her term as secretary of state. Yet Clinton still is better off than six potential GOP candidates tested in this survey, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates: All of them have higher unfavorable than favorable scores, trouble for any public figure. And two for the first time are seen unfavorably by more than half of Americans. http://abcn.ws/1GhorhI