Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 832
       
       
        
       By Senator Berman
       
       
       
       
       
       26-01881-23                                            2023832__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to Holocaust Remembrance Day; creating
    3         s. 683.045, F.S.; requiring the Governor to proclaim
    4         January 27 of each year as “Holocaust Remembrance
    5         Day”; requiring such day to be observed in public
    6         schools and by public exercises as the Governor may
    7         designate; requiring educational instruction to be
    8         provided; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 683.045, Florida Statutes, is created to
   13  read:
   14         683.045 Holocaust Remembrance Day.—
   15         (1) The Governor shall proclaim January 27 of each year to
   16  be “Holocaust Remembrance Day,” which day shall be suitably
   17  observed in the public schools of the state, and which day shall
   18  otherwise be suitably observed by such public exercises in the
   19  State Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor may designate.
   20         (2) If January 27 falls on a day that is not a school day,
   21  Holocaust Remembrance Day shall be observed in the schools on
   22  the preceding school day or on such school day as may be
   23  designated by local school authorities.
   24         (3) Instruction about the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and
   25  their harmful impacts on humanity shall be provided as part of
   26  public educational instruction on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
   27         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.