00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 324                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to an education program about victims of communism."                                                   
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 14.07.180 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                           
04            (p)  The department shall develop and approve a social studies program                                       
05       relating to victims of communism for grades six through 12. The program must                                      
06                 (1)  provide at least 45 minutes of instruction relating to victims of                                  
07       communism and the following leaders:                                                                              
08                      (A)  Mao Zedong, The People's Republic of China;                                                   
09                      (B)  Joseph Stalin, former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;                                    
10                      (C)  Fidel Castro, Cuba;                                                                           
11                      (D)  Vladimir Lenin, former Union of Soviet Socialist                                              
12            Republics;                                                                                                   
13                      (E)  Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam; and                                                               
14                      (F)  Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela;                                                                    
15                 (2)  include topics on how the victims of communism suffered under                                      

01       the regimes listed in (1)(A) - (F) of this subsection through suppression of speech,                              
02       poverty, starvation, imprisonment, migration, and systemic lethal violence against                                
03       civilians; and                                                                                                    
04                 (3)  provide the instruction on November 7 of each year, or as close as                                 
05       practicable to November 7.