| R 201 |
| 2024 -- H 8138 Enacted 04/04/2024 |
| H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N |
| PROCLAIMING APRIL TO BE "HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Representatives Boylan, Ackerman, Kazarian, Kislak, Knight, Finkelman, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Chippendale, and Cortvriend |
| Date Introduced: April 04, 2024 |
| WHEREAS, The State of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island General Assembly passed |
| legislation in 2016 requiring Holocaust and genocide education for secondary public education; |
| and |
| WHEREAS, The State of Rhode Island passed legislation establishing the RI Holocaust |
| and Genocide Education Commission to oversee the implementation of Holocaust and genocide |
| education in the state’s secondary schools with the hopes of better understanding how the |
| Holocaust and genocides can be averted in the future; and |
| WHEREAS, Each year the RI House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes |
| resolutions remembering the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide and other genocides, recognizing the |
| importance of “Never Again”; and |
| WHEREAS, It is essential to our State and our Nation that we educate our youth about |
| the millions of men, women, and children who have and continue to be slaughtered and |
| ostracized simply because of their beliefs and their heritage, or their strength or frailty, in order to |
| not let this brutality and senseless hatred and carnage continue; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby |
| proclaims April to be “Holocaust & Genocide Awareness Month” and strongly encourages Rhode |
| Island’s history and social science educators to incorporate lessons on past and current genocide |
| atrocities into their curriculum and classroom discussions in order to encourage and foster a new |
| generation with insight and the pledge to work to eradicate bigotry, prejudice, brutality, and |
| injustice; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Angélica Infante-Green, Commissioner of the |
| Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Rhode Island |
| Holocaust and Genocide Education Commission. |
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