Rep. Thaddeus Jones

Filed: 4/11/2019

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2646

    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2646 as follows:

by inserting immediately below the enacting clause the following:

    “Section 1. Legislative findings; purpose.

    (a) The General Assembly finds both of the following:

        (1) Impactful, intriguing, and self-contained, a mobile

     tolerance education center is a classroom on wheels that

     was designed to inspire and empower people to raise their

     voices and take action against hate, intolerance, and     

     bullying and to promote justice and human rights.

        (2) Educational curriculums on mobile tolerance

     education centers are specially crafted for the audience,

     providing modified lessons for students of all

    backgrounds. For this reason, a mobile tolerance education  

    center’s utility is widespread, as it will be able to engage

    all age groups and cater workshops to impact everyone,

    including students, educators, law enforcement, business

    and community leaders, and the government.

    (b) The purpose of this Act is for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, with over 40 years of educational experience and fighting for human rights, to build 2 mobile tolerance education centers to teach students and other individuals about the topics of diversity, democracy, civic rights, and responsibility. A mobile tolerance education center will be a 35-seat, fully accessible, state-of-the-art, technologically advanced mobile education center that presents information on the effects and consequences of hate and intolerance. The experience will travel throughout this State, via 2 centers, educating people from different backgrounds and experiences. It will provide education on historical events and instances of inequality and intolerance and will interact with students on how these events are relevant to both American and global perspectives of intolerance.”.