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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 229

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Relating to: directing school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people.

International relations Minority groups Mortgage School — Board School — Curriculum

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law requires each school board to provide an instructional program

designed to give pupils knowledge of state, national, and world history. This bill

directs school boards to include in that instructional program the role of the Hmong

in fighting for the United States in the Vietnam War, the persecution of the Hmong

by the Laotian government after the Vietnam War, and the reasons for the

emigration of many Hmong to the United States.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Billings (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hintz (D) , Kessler (D) , Shankland (D) , Subeck (D)

Full history

  1. May 19, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kessler, Shankland, C. Taylor, Subeck, Billings, Genrich, Hintz and Goyke

  2. May 19, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1