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HOUSE BILL 2212
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 1st Special Session
By Representatives O'Brien, Jacobsen, Locke, Anderson, Wineberry, Jones and Nelson.
Read first time June 12, 1991. Referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT Relating to study of the Holocaust; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.230 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) Every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 and 1945. This period in world history is known as the Holocaust, during which six million Jews and millions of non-Jews were exterminated. The studying of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples from all nations to never again permit the occurrence of another Holocaust.
(2) The superintendent of public instruction may prepare and make available to all school boards instructional materials which may be used as guidelines for development of a unit of instruction under this section. However, each school board shall itself determine the minimum amount of instruction time which qualifies as a unit of instruction satisfying the requirements of this section.