Bill Text: TX SB735 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to Holocaust education and training for public school educators and students.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-26 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB735 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB735-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Menéndez, et al. | S.B. No. 735 | |
| (Buckley) | ||
| Substitute the following for S.B. No. 735: No. | ||
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| relating to Holocaust education and training for public school | ||
| educators and students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 8, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 8.065 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 8.065. COLLABORATION WITH HOLOCAUST MUSEUMS. Each | ||
| regional education service center shall on a regular basis | ||
| collaborate with one or more of the Holocaust museums in this state | ||
| to expand educator training and classroom education opportunities | ||
| regarding Holocaust education. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 29.9072, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) In this section, "Holocaust" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 448.001 [ |
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| (d) Not later than June 1 of each school year, each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school shall submit to the | ||
| agency a report regarding the Holocaust Remembrance Week | ||
| instruction offered by the district or school for that school year | ||
| under this section. The report must include the activities, | ||
| lessons, and instructional materials used for the instruction. | ||
| (e) As soon as practicable after June 1 of each school year, | ||
| the agency shall compile all reports submitted under Subsection (d) | ||
| for the school year and submit the compiled information to each | ||
| regional education service center and the Texas Holocaust, | ||
| Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission. | ||
| (f) Not later than 60 days before the first day of the week | ||
| designated by the governor as Holocaust Remembrance Week, the | ||
| agency shall provide notice to each school district and | ||
| open-enrollment charter school of the week to be known as Holocaust | ||
| Remembrance Week in public schools, including the instruction and | ||
| reporting requirements under Subsections (c) and (d). | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.90721 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.90721. HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE WEEK GRANT PROGRAM. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Advisory commission" means the Texas Holocaust, | ||
| Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission. | ||
| (2) "Commission" means the Texas Historical | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (3) "Holocaust" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 448.001, Government Code. | ||
| (b) From money appropriated, received from gifts, grants, | ||
| or donations, or otherwise available for purposes of this section, | ||
| the commission, in coordination with the advisory commission, shall | ||
| establish and administer a grant program to provide grants to | ||
| school districts and museums, centers, and other relevant | ||
| organizations in this state to assist in the implementation of | ||
| Holocaust Remembrance Week instruction under Section 29.9072. The | ||
| commission may award a grant for purposes of: | ||
| (1) developing optional, age-appropriate lesson plans | ||
| for classroom teachers who lack relevant subject matter expertise | ||
| regarding the Holocaust; | ||
| (2) sponsoring student field trips to the Holocaust | ||
| museums in this state, with priority given to campuses in urban and | ||
| rural districts; | ||
| (3) providing training approved by the advisory | ||
| commission for educators and for administrators who manage | ||
| professional development and teacher training in each district; | ||
| (4) cataloging and expanding relevant audiovisual and | ||
| digital classroom resources, including resources maintained by | ||
| Holocaust museums in this state; and | ||
| (5) developing, in collaboration with museums, | ||
| bilingual curricula to meet the needs of more students in this state | ||
| and making the curricula available on the advisory commission's | ||
| Internet website. | ||
| (c) The commission, in coordination with the advisory | ||
| commission, shall adopt rules as necessary to establish and | ||
| administer the grant program under this section. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 29.9072, Education Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. | ||
| SECTION 5. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Historical Commission, in coordination with | ||
| the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory | ||
| Commission, shall establish the grant program required by Section | ||
| 29.90721, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
