| Passed by the House February 18, 2014 Yeas 98 ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 6, 2014 Yeas 49 ________________________________________ President of the Senate | I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2776 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2014 Regular Session |
Read first time 02/07/14. Referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT Relating to renaming the Washington civil liberties public education program; and amending RCW 28A.300.405.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 28A.300.405 and 2000 c 210 s 4 are each amended to
read as follows:
Consistent with the legislative findings in RCW 28A.300.390, the
legislature shall establish the Kip Tokuda memorial Washington civil
liberties public education program. The program provides grants for
the purpose of establishing a legacy of remembrance as part of a
continuing process of recovery from the World War II exclusion and
detention of individuals of Japanese ancestry. The program is created
to do one or both of the following:
(1) Educate the public regarding the history and the lessons of the
World War II exclusion, removal, and detention of persons of Japanese
ancestry through the development, coordination, and distribution of new
educational materials and the development of curriculum materials to
complement and augment resources currently available on this subject
matter; and
(2) Develop videos, plays, presentations, speaker bureaus, and
exhibitions for presentation to elementary schools, secondary schools,
community colleges, and to other interested parties.