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2023 SESSION
HB 1816 Standards of Learning; instruction on dangers and victims of communism.
Introduced by: G. "John" Avoli | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 million individuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world and to be suitably observed by a public exercise in the Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor may designate in such proclamation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to include in the history and social science Standards of Learning and each school board to emphasize in its Standards-aligned program of instruction the study of the dangers of communism.
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- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102396D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/24/23 House: Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
- 01/27/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
- 01/27/23 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Rules
- 01/30/23 House: Referred from Education by voice vote
- 01/30/23 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/31/23 House: Reported from Rules (14-Y 2-N)
- 02/02/23 House: Read first time
- 02/03/23 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/06/23 House: Read third time and passed House (64-Y 36-N)
- 02/06/23 House: VOTE: Passage (64-Y 36-N)
- 02/07/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/16/23 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)