HB 20-1336 Summary

• Requires school districts and charter schools to incorporate Holocaust and genocide studies standards into an existing high school graduation requirement course beginning July 1, 2023.

• Defines "Holocaust" as the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews and five million individuals targeted for religion, disability, or identity by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

• Defines "Genocide" as acts committed with intent to destroy national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups, including killing, causing serious harm, inflicting deadly conditions, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children.

• Directs the State Board of Education to adopt Holocaust and genocide studies standards by July 1, 2021, utilizing a cost-effective stakeholder process with community experts.

• Establishes a public resource bank of teaching materials, including academic standards, sample programs, first-person testimony, professional development materials, and case studies including the Armenian Genocide.