Bill Text: MN SF665 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Genocide awareness and prevention month designation
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-13 - Author added Marty [SF665 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF665-Introduced.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.
1.7(a) Beginning in 2011, 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
1.9all human rights atrocities. Following the holocaust, on December 9, 1948, the United
1.10Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 260 (III) A, the United Nations Convention
1.11on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, declaring genocide to be a
1.12crime under international law, and defining genocide to include the commission of certain
1.13acts, including killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to
1.14members of a group, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a
1.15group's physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent
1.16births within a group, and forcibly transferring children of a group to another group, with
1.17the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
1.18The state declares that in order to prevent future genocides and mass atrocities, effective
1.19prevention measures must be implemented before a crisis has erupted, and that educating
1.20the public can help to protect individual rights and promote a culture of lawfulness that
1.21will help prevent future genocides.
1.22(b) The governor may take any action necessary to promote and encourage the
1.23observance of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.
1.24EFFECTIVE 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.
1.7(a) Beginning in 2011, 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
1.9all human rights atrocities. Following the holocaust, on December 9, 1948, the United
1.10Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 260 (III) A, the United Nations Convention
1.11on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, declaring genocide to be a
1.12crime under international law, and defining genocide to include the commission of certain
1.13acts, including killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to
1.14members of a group, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a
1.15group's physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent
1.16births within a group, and forcibly transferring children of a group to another group, with
1.17the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
1.18The state declares that in order to prevent future genocides and mass atrocities, effective
1.19prevention measures must be implemented before a crisis has erupted, and that educating
1.20the public can help to protect individual rights and promote a culture of lawfulness that
1.21will help prevent future genocides.
1.22(b) The governor may take any action necessary to promote and encourage the
1.23observance of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.
1.24EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
