2017 House Bill 5255

Expand list of historical genocides schools must teach

Introduced in the House

Nov. 8, 2017

Introduced by Rep. Martin Howrylak (R-41)

To require public school social studies classes to instruct students on the genocidal famine in the Ukraine orchestrated by Stalin and the Soviet Union in 1932 and 1933, called the “Holodomor.” Under past bills that have been enacted schools must now provide instruction on the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide during World War I.

Referred to the Committee on Education Reform