Pupil instruction: genocide education: the Holocaust.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate age-appropriate materials relating to, among other things, genocide and the Holocaust into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science. Under existing law, the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of genocide and the Holocaust.
California SB 1277 (20232024) — Pupil instruction: genocide education: the Holocaust.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate age-appropriate materials relating to, among other things, genocide and the Holocaust into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science. Under existing law, the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of genocide and the Holocaust.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB1277 Stern et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
SB 1277 Stern Senate Third Reading By Ramos — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Stern — primary (person)
Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
Becker — coauthor (person)
Berman — coauthor (person)
Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
Connolly — coauthor (person)
Flora — coauthor (person)
Friedman — coauthor (person)
Haney — coauthor (person)
Low — coauthor (person)
Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
Newman — coauthor (person)
Pellerin — coauthor (person)
Portantino — coauthor (person)
Ramos — coauthor (person)
Rubio — coauthor (person)
Ward — coauthor (person)
Wiener — coauthor (person)
Zbur — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-03-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-03-28 Set for hearing April 10.
2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3559.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-04-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
2024-04-29 April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3978.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4148.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6885.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5731.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-30 (Corrected September 5).
2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2024-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 890, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4f3eaf4-9991-4a04-bc78-f3789f32620d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).