I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2585 
To direct the Librarian of Congress to carry out activities to support 
Armenian Genocide education programs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 1, 2025 
Ms. TITUS (for herself, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. LIEU, and Mr. VALADAO) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
Administration 
A BILL 
To direct the Librarian of Congress to carry out activities 
to support Armenian Genocide education programs, 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 ‘‘Armenian Genocide 
Education Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States has demonstrated a com-
mitment to remembrance and education about the 
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Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923 through the 
United States Government’s May 28, 1951, written 
statement to the International Court of Justice re-
garding the Convention on the Prevention and Pun-
ishment of the Crime of Genocide; through President 
Ronald Reagan’s Proclamation No. 4838 on April 
22, 1981; by H.J. Res 148, adopted on April 8, 
1975; H.J. Res 247, adopted on September 10, 
1984; H. Res. 296, adopted on October 29, 2019; S. 
Res. 150, adopted on December 12, 2019; and 
President Joe Biden’s April 24, 2021, statement 
recognizing the Armenian Genocide. 
(2) H. Res. 296 and S. Res. 150 cite the Otto-
man Empire’s ‘‘campaign of genocide against Arme-
nian, Greek, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac, Aramean, 
Maronite and other Christians’’, and call on the 
United States to— 
(A) ‘‘reject efforts to enlist, engage, or oth-
erwise associate the United States Government 
with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any 
other genocide’’; and 
(B) ‘‘encourage education and public un-
derstanding of the facts of the Armenian Geno-
cide, including the United States role in the hu-
manitarian relief effort, and the relevance of 
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the Armenian Genocide to modern-day crimes 
against humanity’’. 
(3) Today, those who deny that the Ottoman 
Empire systematically planned, organized, and im-
plemented a campaign of genocide against Arme-
nian, Greek, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac, Aramean, 
Maronite, and other Christians or who seek to dis-
tort the true nature of these crimes continue to find 
forums, especially online. This denial and distortion 
dishonors those who were persecuted, murdered, dis-
possessed, and exiled, making it even more of a na-
tional imperative to educate students in the United 
States so that they may explore the lessons that 
these crimes provide for all people, sensitize commu-
nities to the circumstances that gave rise to these 
crimes, and help youth be less susceptible to the 
falsehood of genocide denial and distortion and to 
the destructive messages of hate that arise from de-
nial and distortion. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ARMENIAN GENOCIDE.—The term ‘‘Arme-
nian Genocide’’ means Ottoman Turkey’s systematic 
and deliberate state-sponsored mass murder, na-
tional dispossession, cultural erasure, and exile of 
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millions 
of 
Armenians, 
Greeks, 
Assyrians, 
Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other 
Christians, between 1915 and 1923. 
(2) ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE
EDUCATION
PRO-
GRAM.—The term ‘‘Armenian Genocide education 
program’’ means a program that has as its specific 
and primary purpose the improvement of awareness 
and understanding of the history, lessons, con-
sequences, and ongoing costs of the Armenian Geno-
cide, and which will serve as a means of promoting 
justice and preventing genocide, hate, and bigotry 
against any group of people. 
(3) DENIAL.—The term ‘‘denial’’ refers to dis-
course and propaganda that claims that the Arme-
nian Genocide did not take place. 
(4) DISTORTION.—The term ‘‘distortion’’ refers 
specifically to any attempt to excuse or minimize, in 
its entirety or in its principal elements, the Arme-
nian Genocide, including efforts to blame the victims 
for causing their own genocide, or to portray the Ar-
menian Genocide as a positive historical event. 
(5) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘local educational agency’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
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Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 21 
7801). 
SEC. 4. PROGRAM DESCRIBED. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
AND
OPERATION
OF
PRO-
GRAM.—The Librarian of Congress shall establish and 
carry out a program to support Armenian Genocide edu-
cation programs by— 
(1) carrying out the activities described in sub-
section (b); 
(2) entering into agreements with program par-
ticipants under section 5; and 
(3) providing online resources under section 6. 
(b) ACTIVITIES.—The activities described in this sub-
section are as follows: 
(1) The development and national dissemination 
of accurate, relevant, and accessible resources to 
promote understanding about how and why the Ar-
menian Genocide happened, which shall include dig-
ital resources and may include other types of re-
sources, such as print resources and traveling exhibi-
tions. 
(2) The development, national dissemination, 
and implementation of principles of sound pedagogy 
for teaching about the Armenian Genocide. 
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(3) The provision of professional development 
services for entities participating in the program 
under an agreement entered into under section 5, 
such as through— 
(A) local, regional, and national workshops 
and teacher trainings in conjunction with geno-
cide education centers and other appropriate 
partners; 
(B) engagement with local educational 
agencies and high schools and schools that in-
clude one of the middle grades that are inde-
pendent of any local educational agency; and 
(C) the operation and expansion of a 
teacher fellowship program to cultivate and sup-
port leaders in Armenian Genocide education. 
(4) Engagement with State and local education 
leaders to encourage the adoption of the resources 
developed and supported under the program estab-
lished by this Act into curricula across diverse dis-
ciplines. 
(5) Evaluation and research to assess the effec-
tiveness and impact of the Armenian Genocide edu-
cation programs and the other activities carried out 
under the program established by this Act, which 
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