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PA HB795

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Milou Mackenzie

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Pennsylvania's Public School Code to require instruction on communist and socialist regimes beginning in the 2026-2027 school year for grades 7-12 in all public, private, and parochial schools

  • Mandates teaching about Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet system, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and Nicolas Maduro and the Chavismo movement

  • Requires curriculum to address how victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech

  • State Board of Education must promulgate implementing regulations by April 1, 2026

  • Act takes effect 60 days after enactment

Legislative Description

In high schools, further providing for courses of study.

Last Action

Referred to Education

3/3/2025

Committee Referrals

Education3/3/2025

Full Bill Text

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