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HB 1591 IN

Victims of Communism Remembrance Day.

IN · session 2025 · Assembly / House · bill

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Introduced Jan 21, 2025

Latest action (Jan 21, 2025) First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform

Summary

Requires the governor to annually issue a proclamation designating the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Remembrance Day. Provides that suitable exercises in appropriate and solemn remembrance of the estimated 100,000,000 people whose deaths are attributed to the actions or policies of the world's communist regimes must be held in Indiana. Provides that a school corporation must include a study of the deaths attributed to the world's communist regimes in the school corporation's social studies curriculum. Requires the state board of education to adopt standards for teaching United States history in grade 9 through grade 12 that require at least 45 minutes of instruction on the history of communism.

Sponsor (1)

Action history (2)

  1. Jan 21, 2025 Authored by Representative Carbaugh · lower
  2. Jan 21, 2025 First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform · lower
Subjects
EDUCATION; State Board of Education (SBOE)SCHOOLS; CurriculaSTATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Governor

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