Full Text of SB1268 101st General Assembly
SB1268sam001 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Ram Villivalam Filed: 5/27/2020
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1268
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1268 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 | | 27-20.3 and 27-21 and by adding Section 27-20.8 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.3)
| 7 | | Sec. 27-20.3. Holocaust and Genocide Study. Every public | 8 | | elementary school and
high school shall include in its | 9 | | curriculum a unit of instruction studying
the events of the | 10 | | Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945. This period in world
history | 11 | | is known as the Holocaust, during which 6,000,000 Jews and | 12 | | millions
of non-Jews were exterminated. One of the universal | 13 | | lessons of the Holocaust is that national, ethnic, racial, | 14 | | political, or religious hatred can overtake any nation or | 15 | | society, leading to calamitous consequences. To reinforce that | 16 | | lesson, such curriculum shall include an additional unit of |
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| 1 | | instruction studying other genocides acts of genocide across | 2 | | the globe. This unit must shall include, without limitation but | 3 | | not be limited to , Native Americans in the United States of | 4 | | America, the Armenian Genocide, the Famine-Genocide in | 5 | | Ukraine, and more recent genocides atrocities in Cambodia | 6 | | committed by the Khmer Rouge , Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan , and | 7 | | Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims . The studying of this | 8 | | material is a
reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples | 9 | | from all nations to never
again permit the occurrence of | 10 | | another Holocaust or genocide and a recognition that genocides | 11 | | crimes of genocide continue to be perpetrated across the globe | 12 | | as they have been in the past and to deter indifference to | 13 | | crimes against humanity and human suffering wherever they may | 14 | | occur.
| 15 | | The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make | 16 | | available to
all school boards instructional materials which | 17 | | may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of | 18 | | instruction under this Section; provided,
however, that each | 19 | | school board shall itself determine the minimum amount
of | 20 | | instruction time which shall qualify as a unit of instruction | 21 | | satisfying
the requirements of this Section.
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 94-478, eff. 8-5-05.)
| 23 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.8 new) | 24 | | Sec. 27-20.8. Asian American history study. | 25 | | (a) Every public elementary school and high school shall |
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| 1 | | include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the | 2 | | events of Asian American history, including the history of | 3 | | Asian Americans in Illinois and the Midwest, as well as the | 4 | | contributions of Asian Americans toward advancing civil rights | 5 | | from the 19th century onward. These events shall include the | 6 | | contributions made by individual Asian Americans in government | 7 | | and the arts, humanities, and sciences, as well as the | 8 | | contributions of Asian American communities to the economic, | 9 | | cultural, social, and political development of the United | 10 | | States. The studying of this material shall constitute an | 11 | | affirmation by students of their commitment to respect the | 12 | | dignity of all races and peoples and to forever eschew every | 13 | | form of discrimination in their lives and careers. | 14 | | (b) The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and | 15 | | make available to all school boards instructional materials, | 16 | | including those established by the Public Broadcasting | 17 | | Service, that may be used as guidelines for development of a | 18 | | unit of instruction under this Section. However, each school | 19 | | board shall itself determine the minimum amount of | 20 | | instructional time that shall qualify as a unit of instruction | 21 | | satisfying the requirements of this Section. | 22 | | (c) The regional superintendent of schools shall monitor a | 23 | | school district's compliance with this Section's curricular | 24 | | requirements during his or her annual compliance visit. | 25 | | (d) A school may meet the requirements of this Section | 26 | | through an online program or course.
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| 1 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
| 2 | | (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 101-227 ) | 3 | | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United | 4 | | States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other | 5 | | educational institutions in this State supported or
| 6 | | maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching | 7 | | of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to | 8 | | pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of | 9 | | government and the principles
for which our government stands | 10 | | as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place | 11 | | of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders | 12 | | thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
| 13 | | ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching | 14 | | of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions | 15 | | of African Americans and
other ethnic groups , including , but | 16 | | not restricted to , Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, | 17 | | Irish, Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
| 18 | | French, Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history | 19 | | of this
country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the | 20 | | role and contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall | 21 | | include the study of the events related to the forceful removal | 22 | | and illegal deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens | 23 | | during the Great Depression. The teaching of history shall also | 24 | | include the study of the wrongful incarceration of Japanese | 25 | | Americans during World War II pursuant to United States |
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| 1 | | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signed Executive Order | 2 | | 9066, the heroic service of the 100th Infantry Battalion and | 3 | | the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army | 4 | | during World War II, the subsequent legal challenges by | 5 | | Japanese Americans to Executive Order 9066, the resettlement of | 6 | | Japanese Americans in Illinois following incarceration, and | 7 | | the formal apology and redress for the incarceration issued by | 8 | | the United States government in 1988. The teaching of history | 9 | | also shall include a study of the
role of labor unions and | 10 | | their interaction with government in achieving the
goals of a | 11 | | mixed free enterprise system. Beginning with the 2020-2021 | 12 | | school year, the teaching of history must also include | 13 | | instruction on the history of Illinois. No pupils shall be | 14 | | graduated
from the eighth grade of any
public school unless he | 15 | | has received such instruction in the history of the
United | 16 | | States and gives evidence of having a comprehensive knowledge
| 17 | | thereof.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 101-341, eff. 1-1-20; revised 9-19-19.)
| 19 | | (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 101-227 ) | 20 | | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United | 21 | | States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other | 22 | | educational institutions in this State supported or
| 23 | | maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching | 24 | | of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to | 25 | | pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of |
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| 1 | | government and the principles
for which our government stands | 2 | | as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place | 3 | | of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders | 4 | | thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
| 5 | | ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching | 6 | | of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions | 7 | | of African Americans and
other ethnic groups , including , but | 8 | | not restricted to , Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, | 9 | | Irish, Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
| 10 | | French, Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history | 11 | | of this
country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the | 12 | | role and contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall | 13 | | include the study of the events related to the forceful removal | 14 | | and illegal deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens | 15 | | during the Great Depression. The teaching of history shall also | 16 | | include the study of the wrongful incarceration of Japanese | 17 | | Americans during World War II pursuant to United States | 18 | | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signed Executive Order | 19 | | 9066, the heroic service of the 100th Infantry Battalion and | 20 | | the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army | 21 | | during World War II, the subsequent legal challenges by | 22 | | Japanese Americans to Executive Order 9066, the resettlement of | 23 | | Japanese Americans in Illinois following incarceration, and | 24 | | the formal apology and redress for the incarceration issued by | 25 | | the United States government in 1988. In public schools only, | 26 | | the teaching of history shall include a study of the roles and |
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| 1 | | contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender | 2 | | people in the history of this country and this State. The | 3 | | teaching of history also shall include a study of the
role of | 4 | | labor unions and their interaction with government in achieving | 5 | | the
goals of a mixed free enterprise system. Beginning with the | 6 | | 2020-2021 school year, the teaching of history must also | 7 | | include instruction on the history of Illinois. No pupils shall | 8 | | be graduated
from the eighth grade of any
public school unless | 9 | | he or she has received such instruction in the history of the
| 10 | | United States and gives evidence of having a comprehensive | 11 | | knowledge
thereof.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 101-227, eff. 7-1-20; 101-341, eff. 1-1-20; | 13 | | revised 9-19-19.)
| 14 | | Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes | 15 | | changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text | 16 | | that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section | 17 | | represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does | 18 | | not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes | 19 | | made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other | 20 | | Public Act.
| 21 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 22 | | 2021.".
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