HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1383 FILED ON: 1/18/2017
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 314
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Jeffrey N. Roy and Karen E. Spilka
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act concerning genocide education.
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: | Date Added: |
Jeffrey N. Roy | 10th Norfolk | 1/18/2017 |
Karen E. Spilka | Second Middlesex and Norfolk | 1/26/2017 |
Thomas P. Walsh | 12th Essex |
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David K. Muradian, Jr. | 9th Worcester |
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Cory Atkins | 14th Middlesex |
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Lori A. Ehrlich | 8th Essex |
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Jack Lewis | 7th Middlesex |
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Natalie Higgins | 4th Worcester |
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William L. Crocker, Jr. | 2nd Barnstable |
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David Paul Linsky | 5th Middlesex |
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Jonathan Hecht | 29th Middlesex |
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Randy Hunt | 5th Barnstable |
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Jason M. Lewis | Fifth Middlesex |
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Paul A. Schmid, III | 8th Bristol |
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David M. Rogers | 24th Middlesex |
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Brian Murray | 10th Worcester |
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William N. Brownsberger | Second Suffolk and Middlesex |
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Diana DiZoglio | 14th Essex |
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Steven Ultrino | 33rd Middlesex |
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James M. Cantwell | 4th Plymouth |
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Paul McMurtry | 11th Norfolk |
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Frank I. Smizik | 15th Norfolk | 2/3/2017 |
Edward F. Coppinger | 10th Suffolk |
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Geoff Diehl | 7th Plymouth |
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Michael F. Rush | Norfolk and Suffolk |
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Elizabeth A. Malia | 11th Suffolk |
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Paul R. Heroux | 2nd Bristol |
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Michelle M. DuBois | 10th Plymouth |
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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1383 FILED ON: 1/18/2017
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 314
By Representative Roy of Franklin and Senator Spilka, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 314) of Jeffrey N. Roy, Karen E. Spilka and others relative to the teaching of genocide education in the public schools. Education. |
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 473 OF 2015-2016.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninetieth General Court
(2017-2018)
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An Act concerning genocide education.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 15 of the General Laws is hereby Amended by adding the following section:-
Section 67. Acts of genocide across the globe shall be included in the Massachusetts history and social science curriculum frameworks for United States and world history to address the notion that national, ethic, racial, or religious hatred can overtake any nation or society, leading to calamitous consequences. To reinforce that lesson, such curriculum unit shall include, but not be limited to, the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945 known as the Holocaust, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine known as Holodomor, the Armenian Genocide, the Pontian Greek Genocide, and more recent atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The studying of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples from all nations to never again permit the occurrence of another genocide and a recognition that crimes of genocide continue to be perpetrated across the globe as they have been in the past, and to deter indifference to crimes against humanity and human suffering wherever they may occur.
The department shall recommend curricular materials detailing the underlying causes, international reaction, progression and aftermath of the aforementioned genocides, including those recommendations established by chapter 276 of the acts of 1998.
The department may provide trainings, seminars, conferences and materials for educators to use in the teaching of genocide.