Florida Senate Bill 1008 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 5 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-05-05 - Died in Education Pre-K -12, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 551 (Ch. 2023-103)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Authorizing the Department of Education to seek input from certain entities for specified purposes relating to instruction in the history of African Americans; requiring the department to annually verify that school districts, charter schools, and specified private schools implement certain instruction relating to the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans and providing requirements therefor; requiring certain statewide, standardized assessments to include curricula content from the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans, etc.

Required Instruction in the History of the Holocaust and the History of African Americans

Sen. Geraldine Thompson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-05-05	Senate	Died in Education Pre-K -12, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 551 (Ch. 2023-103)
2023-03-07	Senate	Introduced
2023-02-28	Senate	Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; Fiscal Policy
2023-02-21	Senate	Filed

H479 (Same As) 2023-05-05 - Died in Education Quality Subcommittee; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 551 (Ch. 2023-103)
H551 (Similar To) 2023-05-18 - Chapter No. 2023-103
S804 (Similar To) 2023-05-05 - Died in Fiscal Policy, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 551 (Ch. 2023-103)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1003	42		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1003	4551		Amended Code	See Bill Text
1008	22		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1008
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1008/BillText/Filed/HTML