Bill Text: TX SB2482 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 2482

Bill Title: Relating to a survey of public schools regarding Holocaust Remembrance Week instruction.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB2482 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2482-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Menéndez, et al.	S.B. No. 2482

	(Raymond)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a survey of public schools regarding Holocaust
	Remembrance Week instruction.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 29.90725 to read as follows:
	Sec. 29.90725. SURVEY ON HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE WEEK
	INSTRUCTION. (a) In this section, "advisory commission" means the
	Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission.
	(b) The advisory commission, with the assistance of the
	agency, shall conduct a survey of school districts to review the
	implementation at each district of Holocaust Remembrance Week
	instruction under Section 29.9072.
	(c) The survey must request information from at least half
	of the campuses in a surveyed school district regarding Holocaust
	Remembrance Week instruction, including:
	(1) the extent to which the campus participates in
	Holocaust Remembrance Week;
	(2) the familiarity of the educators and
	administrators at each campus with the materials and resources
	available from the advisory commission and other local institutions
	dedicated to Holocaust education to support instruction during
	Holocaust Remembrance Week; and
	(3) any additional materials or resources the campus
	would find useful to support instruction during Holocaust
	Remembrance Week, including professional development for
	educators, lessons plans, or other classroom resources.
	(d) Not later than December 1, 2024, the advisory commission
	shall submit to the legislature a written report that includes the
	survey's findings and any recommendations for legislative or other
	action.
	(e) This section expires September 1, 2025.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.