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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0312
Introduced 1/19/2005, by Rep. John A. Fritchey - Paul D. Froehlich SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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105 ILCS 5/27-20.3 |
from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.3 |
30 ILCS 805/8.29 new |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that the required unit of instruction studying the events of the Holocaust shall be expanded to include the study of other events of genocide, including those in Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT |
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A BILL FOR
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HB0312 |
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LRB094 05143 RAS 35183 b |
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| AN ACT concerning schools.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 27-20.3 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/27-20.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.3)
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| Sec. 27-20.3. Genocide study
Holocaust Study. Every public |
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| elementary school and
high school shall include in its |
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| curriculum a unit of instruction studying
the events of |
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| genocide across the globe. This unit of instruction shall |
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| primarily include, but not be limited to, the Famine-Genocide |
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| in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to |
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| 1945 . This period in world
history is known as the Holocaust, |
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| and more recent acts of genocide in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, |
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| and Sudan , during which 6,000,000 Jews and millions
of non-Jews |
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| were exterminated. The studying of this material is a
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| reaffirmation of the awareness that crimes of genocide continue |
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| to be perpetrated as they had been in the past and of the
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| commitment of free peoples from all nations to prevent |
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| additional acts of genocide from occurring in the future
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| never
again permit the occurrence of another Holocaust.
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| The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make |
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| available to
all school boards instructional materials which |
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| may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of |
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| instruction under this Section; provided,
however, that each |
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| school board shall itself determine the minimum amount
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| instruction time which shall qualify as a unit of instruction |
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| satisfying
the requirements of this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-780.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |
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| Section 8.29 as
follows:
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