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TN HB0356

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2025

Primary Sponsor

Dennis Powers

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Origin

House of Representatives

114th General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Designates November 7 of each year as "Victims of Communism Day" in all Tennessee LEAs and public charter schools

  • Requires high school world history and geography courses to provide at least 45 minutes of instruction on Victims of Communism Day

  • 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

  • Instruction must address how victims suffered through poverty, starvation, migration, systematic lethal violence, and suppression of speech

  • 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Withdrawn.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

Committee Referrals

Education2/3/2025

Full Bill Text

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