Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 268
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/18/2022           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Diaz) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 57 - 66
    4  and insert:
    5         (3)(a) Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, high school
    6  students enrolled in the United States Government class required
    7  by s. 1003.4282(3)(d) must receive at least 45 minutes of
    8  instruction on Victims of Communism Day to include topics such
    9  as Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, Joseph Stalin and the
   10  Soviet System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir
   11  Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge,
   12  and Nicolás Maduro and the Chavismo movement, and how victims
   13  suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation,
   14  migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech.
   15         (b) No later than April 1, 2023, the State Board of
   16  Education must adopt revised social studies standards for
   17  inclusion in the United States Government course required by s.
   18  1003.4282(3)(d) which incorporate the requirements of this
   19  subsection.
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   21  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Delete line 11
   24  and insert:
   25         requiring the State Board of Education to adopt
   26         specified revised social studies standards; providing
   27         an effective date.