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AR HB1736

Bill

Status

Failed

5/1/2023

Primary Sponsor

Scott Richardson

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Origin

House of Representatives

94th General Assembly (2023 Regular)

AI Summary

  • Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, all Arkansas public schools must teach education concerning the perils of communism and autocratic governments in a manner appropriate to student grade levels

  • Curriculum must cover the record of mass murder and oppression by communist and autocratic governments, economic structures and their collapses, failures of communist economic systems, and the influence of the Soviet Union/Russia, People's Republic of China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Argentina

  • The State Board of Education shall develop and distribute grade-appropriate curricula, standards, materials, and units for grades 7-12 in consultation with local, statewide, and national experts in communism and autocratic government education

  • "Communism and autocratic government" is defined as a system where absolute power is concentrated in one individual without external legal constraints or mechanisms of popular control, and has resulted in the murder of approximately 100 million citizens

Legislative Description

To Require The Perils Of Communism And Autocratic Governments Be Taught In All Public Schools.

Last Action

Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment.

5/1/2023

Committee Referrals

Education4/4/2023
Education3/28/2023

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