Bill Text: CA AB1912 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1912 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: history-social science framework: election of President Barack Obama.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 286, Statutes of 2014. [AB1912 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1912-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1912	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Gonzalez,   Hall,   and Ting   )


                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to add Section 33543 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1912, as amended, Holden. Pupil instruction: history-social
science framework: election of President Barack Obama.
   Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to
recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.
Existing law defines "curriculum framework" as an outline of the
components of a given course of study designed to provide state
direction to school districts in the provision of instructional
programs.
   This bill would require the commission and the state board to
consider including, in the history-social science curriculum
framework adopted in the course of the next submission cycle 
following January 1, 2015  , instruction on the election of
President Barack Obama and the significance of the United States
electing its first African American President, as appropriate.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The election of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of
President of the United States was a historic step in the effort
towards equality in the United States.
   (b) Before the Civil Rights Movement, intimidation and physical
violence prevented millions of African Americans from voting and
alienated them from the electoral process.
   (c) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a civil rights victory that
inspired more ethnic minorities to register to vote and pursue
elected office.
   (d) Barack Obama attended Harvard Law School where he became the
first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
   (e) After law school, Barack Obama worked to fulfill the spirit of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by encouraging people to register to
vote.
   (f) Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in
1996 and to the United States Senate in 2004.
   (g) Senator Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the
United States and first African American President on November 4,
2008, and was sworn in on January 20, 2009.
   (h) In honor of  this milestone in civil rights 
 his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy
and cooperation between peoples  , President Obama was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize.
   (i) President Obama was reelected on November 6, 2012, and was
sworn in for his second term on January 20, 2013.
  SEC. 2.  Section 33543 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   33543.  The commission and the state board shall consider
including, in the history-social science curriculum framework adopted
in the course of the next submission cycle  following
January 1, 2015  , instruction on the election of President
Barack Obama and the significance of the United States electing its
first African American President, as appropriate.