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GA HB1569

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

3/15/2022

Primary Sponsor

Sandra Scott

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Origin

House of Representatives

2021-2022 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • All art and artifacts depicting slavery, the Holocaust, or any other systemic racial injustice must be permanently removed from public view in the Georgia capitol building, capitol grounds, and all state or government buildings
  • "Depict" is defined broadly to include showing, delineating, describing, portraying, rendering, or representing
  • A "systemic racial injustice committee" would be created to identify and catalog the items for removal, composed of 7 members: appointees from the House, Senate, and Governor's office, plus representatives from local chapters of the NAACP, National Action Network, National Council of Negro Women, and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
  • The committee is charged with working with appropriate state agencies to have identified items permanently removed from public view
  • The committee automatically dissolves once all identified art and artifacts have been removed

Legislative Description

State government; removal from public view all art and artifacts that depict slavery, the Holocaust, or any other systemic radical injustice; provide

Last Action

House Second Readers

3/17/2022

Committee Referrals

State Properties3/16/2022

Full Bill Text

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