Stricken language would be deleted from and underlined language would be added to present law.
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State of Arkansas 1
95th General Assembly A Bill 2
Regular Session, 2025 HOUSE BILL 1060 3
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By: Representative R. Scott Richardson 5
By: Senator J. Dotson 6
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For An Act To Be Entitled 8
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE PERILS OF COMMUNISM AND 9
AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS BE TAUGHT IN ALL PUBLIC 10
SCHOOLS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 11
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TO REQUIRE THE PERILS OF COMMUNISM AND 15
AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS BE TAUGHT IN ALL 16
PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 17
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 19
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SECTION 1. Arkansas Code Title 6, Chapter 16, Subchapter 1, is amended 21
to add an additional section to read as follows: 22
6-16-156. Perils of communism education — Required — Definition. 23
(a) Beginning with the 2024 -2025 school year, education concerning the 24
perils of communism and autocratic governments shall be taught in all public 25
schools in a manner that generates an understanding of the following results 26
of communism and autocratic governments: 27
(1) The record of mass murder and oppression committed as a 28
result of communism and autocratic governments; 29
(2) The economic structures and related collapses of the 30
economic structures in countries that have adopted communist policies; 31
(3) The issues and failures associated with communist economic 32
systems; and 33
(4) The continued failure of communism and autocratic 34
governments resulting from the direct influences of: 35
(A) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its 36 HB1060
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successor state, Russia; 1
(B) The People's Republic of China; 2
(C) Democratic People's Republic of Korea; and 3
(D) Argentina. 4
(b) The State Board of Education, in consultation with local, 5
statewide, and national experts in communism and autocratic government 6
education, shall develop and distribute grade -appropriate curricula, 7
standards, materials, and units relating to the perils of communism and 8
autocratic governments for grades seven through twelve (7 -12) in all public 9
schools. 10
(c) As used in this section, “communism and autocratic government" 11
means a system of government in which absolute power over a state is 12
concentrated in the hands of a single person or party, whose decisions are 13
subject to neither external legal constraints nor regularized mechanisms of 14
popular control. 15
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