Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1606
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/24/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Rodriguez) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 50 and 51
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, high
    6  school students enrolled in the United States Government class
    7  required by s. 1003.4282, Florida Statutes, must receive at
    8  least 45 minutes of instruction on “Victims of Communism Day” on
    9  topics such as Mao Zedong in China, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet
   10  System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin
   11  and the Russian Revolution, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and Nicolas
   12  Maduro in Venezuela and how the victims suffered under these
   13  regimes through suppression of speech, poverty, starvation,
   14  migration, and systemic lethal violence against civilians.
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   16  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   17  And the title is amended as follows:
   18         Delete line 6
   19  and insert:
   20         of the victims of communism; requiring high school
   21         students in a United States Government course to
   22         receive certain instruction on “Victims of Communism
   23         Day”; providing an effective