Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (231978) for CS for SB 1628
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/28/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Book) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 37 - 56
    4  and insert:
    5  democratic values and institutions, including the policy
    6  against, definition, and historical and current examples of
    7  anti-Semitism, as described in s. 1000.05(7), and the prevention
    8  of anti-Semitism. Each school district must annually certify and
    9  provide evidence to the department, in a manner prescribed by
   10  the department, that the requirements of this paragraph are met.
   11  The department shall prepare and offer standards and curriculum
   12  for the instruction required by this paragraph and may seek
   13  input from the Commissioner of Education’s Task Force on
   14  Holocaust Education or from any state or nationally recognized
   15  Holocaust educational organization. The department may contract
   16  with the Commissioner of Education’s Task Force on Holocaust
   17  Education and other entities, including the Holocaust Education
   18  Resource Council, Florida State University’s Holocaust Institute
   19  for Educators, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education
   20  Center of Florida, the Holocaust Education and Documentation
   21  Center, Inc., Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Holocaust
   22  and Human Rights Education, the University of Miami’s Holocaust
   23  Teacher Institute, the Holocaust Museum and Janet G. and Harvey
   24  D. Cohen Education Center, the University of Florida Center for
   25  Jewish Studies, the Northeast Florida Center for Holocaust and
   26  Human Rights Education, and the Florida Holocaust Museum or
   27  other state or nationally recognized Holocaust educational
   28  organizations, to develop training for instructional personnel
   29  and grade-appropriate classroom resources to support the
   30  developed curriculum. The second week in November of each year
   31  must be recognized in the public K-20 education system as
   32  Holocaust Education Week, in commemoration of the anniversary of
   33  Kristallnacht, widely recognized as a precipitating event that
   34  led to the Holocaust.
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   36  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   37  And the title is amended as follows:
   38         Delete lines 8 - 14
   39  and insert:
   40         the department to work with a certain task force and
   41         other entities for specified purposes; recognizing the
   42         second week in November as Holocaust Education Week;
   43         providing an effective date.