Bill Text: MN SF359 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Genocide awareness and prevention month designation
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-01 - Secretary of State Chapter 26 04/29/13 [SF359 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-SF359-Engrossed.html
1.2relating to state government; designating the month of April as Genocide
1.3Awareness and Prevention Month;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
1.4Statutes, chapter 10.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. [10.581] GENOCIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION MONTH.
1.7Beginning in 2013, the month of April is designated as Genocide Awareness and
1.8Prevention Month in recognition of the state's desire to combat all acts of genocide and all
1.9human rights atrocities. Following the holocaust, on December 9, 1948, the United Nations
1.10General Assembly adopted Resolution 260 (III) A, the United Nations Convention on the
1.11Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, declaring genocide to be a crime
1.12under international law, and defining genocide to include the commission of certain acts,
1.13including killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
1.14of a group, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a group's
1.15physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births
1.16within a group, and forcibly transferring children of a group to another group, with the
1.17intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The state
1.18declares that in order to educate the public and help prevent future genocides, the governor
1.19may promote and encourage the observance of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.
1.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3Awareness and Prevention Month;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
1.4Statutes, chapter 10.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. [10.581] GENOCIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION MONTH.
1.7Beginning in 2013, the month of April is designated as Genocide Awareness and
1.8Prevention Month in recognition of the state's desire to combat all acts of genocide and all
1.9human rights atrocities. Following the holocaust, on December 9, 1948, the United Nations
1.10General Assembly adopted Resolution 260 (III) A, the United Nations Convention on the
1.11Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, declaring genocide to be a crime
1.12under international law, and defining genocide to include the commission of certain acts,
1.13including killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
1.14of a group, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a group's
1.15physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births
1.16within a group, and forcibly transferring children of a group to another group, with the
1.17intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The state
1.18declares that in order to educate the public and help prevent future genocides, the governor
1.19may promote and encourage the observance of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.
1.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
