25.0766.03003
Title.04000
Adopted by the Education Committee
Sixty-ninth
February 17, 2025
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Maki, Hoverson, S. Olson, Osowski, Tveit, VanWinkle
Senators Clemens, Paulson, Weston
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 15.1-21 of the North Dakota
Century Code, relating to required Holocaust education; and to provide for a legislative
management report.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 15.1-21 of the North Dakota Century Code is created
and enacted as follows:
Holocaust education - Report.
1.In this section:
a."Antisemitism" means a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as
hatred toward Jews, and may be manifested physically or rhetorically toward
individuals, property, community institutions, and religious facilities has the same
meaning as the working definition of antisemitism adopted by the international
holocaust remembrance alliance on May 26, 2016, including contemporary
examples of an ti semitism and incorporated by reference in presidential executive
order number 13899, published on December 11, 2019 .
b."Holocaust" means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution
and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Third Reich and its allies and
collaborators during World War II.
c. "Nazi" means the national socialist German workers' party, a political party that
rose to power in 1933 and governed Germany until 1945.
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HOUSE BILL NO. 1527
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2.Each school district shall provide grade-level appropriate Holocaust education.
3. Holocaust education must be incorporated into the United States history curriculum
required under section 15.1 - 21 - 02.2. The curriculum must include the T he department
of public instruction shall ensure , when the superintendent of public instruction
conducts a review of the kindergarten through grade twelve history standards, the high
school world history standards include the following as required power standards :
a.Causes and ramifications of the Holocaust;
b.History of antisemitism and the Holocaust, including the Third Reich dictatorship,
concentration camp system, persecution of Jews and non-Jews, Jewish and
non - Jewish resistance, and post-World War II trials;
c.Impact of personal responsibility, civic engagement, and societal response in the
context of the Holocaust;
d.Connection between national, ethnic, racial, and religious intolerance and the
subjects described in subdivisions a and b;
e.Leading role played by the United States and the armed forces of the United
States; and
f.Definition, history, response, and actions taken in the face of the Holocaust.
4. 3. The superintendent of public instruction shall report on or before July first of each year
to the governor and to the legislative management regarding the
implementation completion of this section, including the number of schools complying
with this section the updated kindergarten through grade twelve history standards and
the implementation of those standards .
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