An Act To O Require Education about the Holocaust
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 1050
Committee Amendment CA_A_S147 (Senate)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §4706

FffiST REGULAR SESSION 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "/~" to S.P. 310, L.D. 1050, Bill, "An Act To 
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Require Education about the Holocaust" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Require Education about the History of Genocide' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §4706, as amended by PL 2009, c. 313, §§8 and 9, is further 
amended to read: 
§4706. Instruction in American history, Maine studies, Maine Native American 
history and genocide 
Instruction in American history, government, citizenship arul .. Maine studies and the 
history of genocide must be aligned with the parameters for essential instruction and 
graduation requirements established under section 6209. 
1. American history. American history, government and citizenship, including the 
Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the importance of 
voting and the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship, must be taught in and 
required for graduation from all elementary and secondary schools, both public and 
private. 
2. 
Maine studies. 
Maine history, including the Constitution of Maine, Maine 
geography and environment and the natural, industrial and economic resources of Maine 
and Maine's cultural and ethnic heritage, must be taught. A required component of Maine 
studies is Maine Native American studies, which must be included in the review of 
content standards and performance indicators of the learning results conducted in 
accordance with section 6209, subsection 4. The Maine Native American studies must 
address the following topics: 
A. Maine tribal governments and political systems and their relationship with local, 
state, national and international governments; 
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B. 
Maine Native American cultural systems and the experience of Maine tribal 
people throughout history; 
C. Maine Native American territories; and 
D. Maine Native American economic systems. 
3. Genocide. The history of genocide, including the Holocaust, must be taught and 
must be included in the review of content standards and performance indicators of the 
system of learning results conducted in accordance with section 6209, subsection 4. For 
purposes of this subsection, "Holocaust" is the program of discriminatory and genocidal 
laws, policies or actions targeted against discrete groups of individuals based on race, 
religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical disability or national origin, from January 
1, 1933 to December 31, 1945, in Nazi Germany or in any European country allied with 
or occupied by Nazi Germany. 
Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. 
The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
Learning Systems Team Z081 
Initiative: Provides one-time funds for the costs associated with the Department of 
Education holding meetings with stakeholders to revise the social studies standards. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2019-20 
$9,000 
$9,000 
2020-21 
$0 
$0 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill. It requires that the history of genocide, including 
the Holocaust, to be taught in schools, aligned with the parameters for essential 
instruction and graduation requirements and included in the review of content standards 
and performance indicators of the system of learning results. It adds an appropriations 
and allocations section. 
The fiscal note on this amendment identifies certain requirements in the amendment 
as a potential state mandate. In order to be a mandate pursuant to the Constitution of 
Maine, a provision must require a local unit of government to expand or modify its 
activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. The committee 
finds that the provision in the bill requiring the history of genocide to be taught in 
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schools, the provision the fiscal note identifies as potentially a mandate, does not create a 
mandate since the history of genocide relates to topics already required to be taught in 
schools and so should not cause any school to expand or modify its activities so as to 
necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
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LD 1050 
LR 2072(02) 
An Act To Require Education about the Holocaust 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'Yi" ( 5- / L~I l) 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded 
FY 2019-20 
FY 2020-21 
Projections 
FY 2021-22 
Projections 
FY 2022-23 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
$9,000 
$9,000 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
State Mandates 
Required Activity 
Requires the history of genocide, including the Holocaust, be taught in schools. 
Unit Affected 
School 
Local Cost 
Moderate 
statewide 
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill 
does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures 
from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund 
appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a 
Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from 
the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local 
units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities. 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This bill includes a one-time General Fund appropriation of $9,000 in fiscal year 2019-20 to the Leaming Systems 
program within the Department of Education for the costs associated with holding meetings with stakeholders to 
revise the social studies standards. The department has indicated that it has just completed a review of the social 
studies standards and, therefore, has not requested funding in the 2020-2021 biennial budget to conduct another 
review. 
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