BILL NUMBER: AB 659	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 8, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 51226.3 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 659, as amended, Nazarian. Pupil instruction: Armenian
Genocide.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Education to
incorporate materials relating to civil rights, human rights
violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust into publications
that provide examples of curriculum resources, consistent with the
subject frameworks on history and social science and other
requirements. Under existing law, the Legislature encourages the
incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness testimony
into the teaching of human rights, genocide, and the Holocaust. 
Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and
requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum
frameworks to the State Board of Education. 
   This bill would also require the incorporation of materials
related to the Armenian Genocide into those publications, and would
require  the commission to consider  the Armenian Genocide
 to be considered in the next cycle in which 
for inclusion in  the  history/social  
history-social  science curriculum framework  and its
accompanying instructional materials are adopted   when
the history-social science   framework is revised as
required by law  . The bill would also specify that the
Legislature encourages the incorporation of  an oral history
component specifically related to genocide, including, but not
limited to,   survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness
oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, the Holocaust, and
genocide, including  the  Armenian, Cambodian,  Darfur,
 and  Rwandan  , Cambodian, and Armenian genocides,
and the Jewish Holocaust, and   genocides. The bill
 would  require   define oral 
testimony  incorporated into an oral history component to
consist only of   to mean  firsthand accounts of
significant historical events presented in a specified format.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 51226.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   51226.3.  (a) The department shall incorporate into publications
that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use those
materials developed by publishers of nonfiction, trade books, and
primary sources, or other public or private organizations, that are
age-appropriate and consistent with the subject frameworks on history
and social science that deal with civil rights, human rights
violations, genocide, slavery, the Holocaust, and the Armenian
Genocide.
   (b) (1)    The Legislature encourages the
incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness  oral
 testimony into the teaching of human rights,  genocide,
 the Holocaust, and  the Armenian Genocide
  genocide, including, but not limited to, the Armenian,
Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides  . 
   (c) (1) The Legislature encourages the incorporation of an oral
history component specifically related to genocide, including, but
not limited to, the Darfur, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Armenian
genocides, and the Jewish Holocaust. 
   (2) As used in this subdivision,  testimony incorporated
into an oral history component shall consist only of  
"oral testimony" means the  firsthand accounts of significant
historical events presented in a format that includes, but is not
limited to, in-person testimony, video, or a multimedia option, such
as a DVD or online video. 
   (d) 
    (  c)  The Legislature encourages all state and
local professional development activities to provide teachers with
content background and resources to assist in teaching about civil
rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, the Holocaust,
and the Armenian Genocide. 
   (e) 
    (   d)  The Legislature encourages all state
and local professional development activities to provide teachers
with content background and resources to assist in teaching about the
Great Irish Famine of 1845-50. 
   (f) The Great Irish Famine of 1845-50 and the Armenian Genocide
shall be considered in the next cycle in which the history/social
science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional
materials are adopted.  
   (e) When the history-social science curriculum framework is
revised as required by law, the Instructional Quality Commission
shall consider including the Great Irish Famine of 1845-50 and the
Armenian Genocide in the history-social science curriculum framework.
 
   (g) 
    (   f)  The Model Curriculum for Human Rights
and Genocide adopted by the state board, pursuant to Section 51226,
shall be made available to schools in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as
soon as funding is available for this purpose. In addition, the
department shall make the curriculum available on its Internet Web
site.