Bill Text: TX HB3966 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to Holocaust Remembrance Week in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Referred to Education [HB3966 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3966-Introduced.html
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By: Raymond | H.B. No. 3966 |
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relating to Holocaust Remembrance Week in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.9072 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.9072. HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE WEEK. (a) In this | ||
section, "Holocaust" has the meaning assigned by Section 449.001, | ||
Government Code. | ||
(b) To educate students about the Holocaust and inspire in | ||
students a sense of responsibility to recognize and uphold human | ||
value and to prevent future atrocities, the governor shall | ||
designate a week to be known as Holocaust Remembrance Week in public | ||
schools. | ||
(c) Holocaust Remembrance Week shall include | ||
age-appropriate instruction, as determined by each school | ||
district. Instruction shall include: | ||
(1) information about the history of and lessons | ||
learned from the Holocaust; | ||
(2) participation, in person or using technology, in | ||
learning projects about the Holocaust; and | ||
(3) the use of materials developed or approved by the | ||
Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |