Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires every public elementary school and high school to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events related to the forceful removal and illegal deportation of almost 2,000,000 Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great Depression, beginning in 1929 and ending in the mid-1940's. Allows the State Superintendent of Education to prepare and make available to all school boards instructional materials. Provides that each school board shall itself determine the minimum amount of instruction time that shall qualify as a unit of instruction. Effective January 1, 2010.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0629 [SB1557 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Concurrence in Senate	2009-05-27	52	0	2	0	54	Passed	Link	View
House	Third Reading in House	2009-05-14	112	1	0	0	113	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Third Reading in Senate	2009-03-31	38	6	10	0	54	Passed	Link	View