IIB 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5349 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 9, 2024 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
To develop and disseminate a civic education curriculum 
and oral history resources regarding certain political 
ideologies, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Crucial Communism 
Teaching Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are the following: 
(1) To help families, civic institutions, local 
communities, 
local 
educational 
agencies, 
high 
schools, and State educational agencies to prepare 
high school students to be civically responsible and 
knowledgeable adults. 
(2) To ensure that high school students in the 
United States— 
(A) learn that communism has led to the 
deaths of over 100,000,000 victims worldwide; 
(B) understand the dangers of communism 
and similar political ideologies; and 
(C) understand that 1,500,000,000 people 
still suffer under communism. 
SEC. 3. DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF CIVIC EDU-
CATION CURRICULUM AND ORAL HISTORY 
RESOURCES. 
The independent entity created under section 
905(b)(1)(B) of the FRIENDSHIP Act (40 U.S.C. 8903 
note; 107 Stat. 2331 note), also known as the ‘‘Victims 
of Communism Memorial Foundation’’, shall— 
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(1) develop a civic education curriculum for 
high school students that— 
(A) includes a comparative discussion of 
certain political ideologies, including com-
munism and totalitarianism, that conflict with 
the principles of freedom and democracy that 
are essential to the founding of the United 
States; 
(B) is updated periodically to ensure the 
curriculum includes both past and present com-
munist and totalitarian regimes, with a focus 
on— 
(i) ongoing human rights abuses by 
such regimes, such as the treatment of 
Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region (XUAR) by the People’s Re-
public of China; and 
(ii) 
aggression 
by 
such 
regimes 
against democratic nations and democracy, 
such as actions taken by the People’s Re-
public of China to deter pro-democracy 
protests in Hong Kong and the increas-
ingly aggressive posture by the People’s 
Republic of China toward Taiwan, a demo-
cratic friend of the United States. 
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(C) is accurate, relevant, and accessible, so 
as to promote the understanding of such polit-
ical ideologies; and 
(D) is compatible with a variety of courses, 
including social studies, government, history, 
and economics classes; 
(2) develop oral history resources that may be 
used alongside the curriculum described in para-
graph (1) and that include personal stories, titled 
‘‘Portraits in Patriotism’’, from diverse individuals 
who— 
(A) demonstrate civic-minded qualities; 
(B) are victims of the political ideologies 
described in paragraph (1)(A); and 
(C) are able to compare the political 
ideologies described in paragraph (1)(A) with 
the political ideology of the United States; and 
(3) engage with State and local educational 
leaders to assist high schools in using the curriculum 
described in paragraph (1) and the resources de-
scribed in paragraph (2). 
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SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
The terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801) shall 
apply to this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 6, 
2024. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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