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TN HB0356
Bill
Status
1/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Dennis Powers
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AI Summary
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Designates November 7 of each year as "Victims of Communism Day" in all Tennessee LEAs and public charter schools
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Requires high school world history and geography courses to provide at least 45 minutes of instruction on Victims of Communism Day
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Mandated instruction must cover topics including Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and Nicolás Maduro and the Chavismo movement
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Instruction must address how victims suffered through poverty, starvation, migration, systematic lethal violence, and suppression of speech
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Takes effect July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 15; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to victims of communism.
Education
Last Action
Withdrawn.
2/5/2025