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TX SB24
Bill
Status
6/20/2025
Primary Sponsor
Donna Campbell
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AI Summary
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Requires the State Board of Education to adopt social studies curriculum standards for grades 4-12 that develop student understanding of communist regimes and ideologies
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Mandates instruction on historical atrocities under communist regimes, including China's Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward, the Ukrainian Holodomor, Soviet Great Terror, Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot, and Communist Party of Cuba policies
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Requires comparative analysis contrasting communism and totalitarianism with U.S. founding principles of freedom, democracy, individual rights, and free enterprise
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Includes instruction on tactics used to spread communist ideologies such as propaganda, public shaming, censorship, and forced conformity, as well as first-person accounts from victims of communist regimes
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State Board of Education must review and revise curriculum standards by July 31, 2026, with implementation beginning in the 2026-2027 school year; passed Senate 28-3 and House 119-13
Legislative Description
Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students.
Education
Last Action
Effective immediately
6/20/2025