The Yuba Community College District, in north-central California, has agreed to scrap several speech restrictions in response to a federal lawsuit filed by a student who had faced disciplinary action for proselytizing on its Yuba College campus without a permit.

As part of a settlement reached in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento, the three-campus district has revised its policies to delete several speech restrictions, including provisions limiting student free speech to two hours a week and requiring students who wished to speak out to obtain a permit weeks in advance.

The plaintiff in the case, Ryan Dozier, had been preaching Christian beliefs in a Yuba College walkway last February when the campus police stopped him and told him he needed a permit. He later received a letter accusing him of violating college policy and telling him he faced expulsion if he engaged in future infractions.

Mr. Dozier sued the district in September, aided by lawyers from the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal-advocacy group. Among the policies his lawsuit challenged as violating his First Amendment rights was one limiting “free speech” on the campus to Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

“Christian students shouldn’t have to face jail and expulsion for expressing their beliefs on a public-college campus,” Heather Gebelin Hacker, a staff lawyer for the advocacy group, said in a statement announcing the settlement.

As part of the settlement, district officials agreed to pay $25,000 in legal costs incurred by Mr. Dozier but denied any liability or wrongdoing. —Peter Schmidt