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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2283 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible entities 
to carry out educational programs that include the history of peoples 
of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the settling and founding of 
America, the social, economic, and political environments that led to 
the development of discriminatory laws targeting Asians and Pacific 
Islanders and their relation to current events, and the impact and con-
tributions of Asian Americans to the development and enhancement of 
American life, United States history, literature, the economy, politics, 
body of laws, and culture, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 29, 2021 
Ms. MENG (for herself, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. BUSH, 
Mr. CARSON, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Mr. CORREA, Mr. DANNY K. 
DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DELBENE, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. 
GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. JACOBS of 
California, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. JONES, Mr. 
KHANNA, Mr. KILMER, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. LEE of California, 
Mr. LIEU, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. 
MCCOLLUM, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLI-
TANO, Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. OMAR, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. 
ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SAN NICOLAS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 
SUOZZI, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. 
TRONE, and Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants 
to eligible entities to carry out educational programs 
that include the history of peoples of Asian and Pacific 
Islander descent in the settling and founding of America, 
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the social, economic, and political environments that led 
to the development of discriminatory laws targeting 
Asians and Pacific Islanders and their relation to current 
events, and the impact and contributions of Asian Ameri-
cans to the development and enhancement of American 
life, United States history, literature, the economy, poli-
tics, body of laws, and culture, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Teaching Asian Pacific 
American History Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States of America has benefited 
from the integral role Asian Americans and Pacific 
Islanders have played in our country’s history and 
contributions to the world. 
(2) The Pacific Island Territories of Guam, 
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands have unique histories that 
are often overlooked in American history despite 
their immense contributions to our Nation. 
(3) The traditional American K–12 curriculum 
continues to be taught from a Eurocentric point of 
view and exclude histories of racist immigration laws 
relevant to policies today. 
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(4) K–12 social studies textbooks poorly rep-
resent Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, over-
look the diversity within those communities, and 
print images of Asian Americans and Pacific Island-
ers in stereotypical roles. 
(5) The Federal Government, through support 
for educational activities of national museums estab-
lished under Federal law, can assist teachers in ef-
forts to incorporate historically accurate instruction 
on the comprehensive history of Asian Americans 
and Pacific Islanders and assist students in their ex-
ploration of Asian Pacific American history as an in-
tegral part of American history. 
(6) The history of America’s system of immi-
gration is rife with racism, embedded in goals of hir-
ing workers to work for cheaper wages and labor in 
heinous working conditions. 
(7) Congress has continuously passed anti- 
Asian laws as the result of the scapegoating of Asian 
immigrant laborers for the United States economic 
downturns. 
(8) The history of South Asian Americans in 
the United States dates back to the late 1700s. 
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