[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8254 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8254

 To direct the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
   to develop a curriculum for the study of modern-day antisemitism 
 surrounding Hamas' October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel 
         for use in secondary schools, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 6, 2024

 Mr. Gottheimer (for himself and Mrs. Steel) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
                               Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
   to develop a curriculum for the study of modern-day antisemitism 
 surrounding Hamas' October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel 
         for use in secondary schools, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``October 7 Remembrance Education 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CURRICULUM FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM SURROUNDING AND 
              LEADING UP TO HAMAS' OCTOBER 7, 2023, TERRORIST ATTACKS 
              AGAINST ISRAEL.

    (a) Curriculum Development.--Beginning not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the United 
States Holocaust Memorial Museum (referred to in this Act as the 
``Director'') shall develop a curriculum for the study of Hamas' 
October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel, for use in secondary 
schools. Such curriculum shall include information on--
            (1) the heinous and brutal attacks committed against Israel 
        by Hamas on October 7, 2023;
            (2) the history of antisemitism and how it played a role in 
        such attacks;
            (3) how antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric spread 
        throughout the United States and on campuses of institutions of 
        higher education following such attacks;
            (4) how social media accelerated the spread of antisemitism 
        and anti-Israel rhetoric following such attacks; and
            (5) denial and distortion as a form of antisemitism in the 
        wake of such attacks.
    (b) Report.--
            (1) In general.--Following the completion of the curriculum 
        development under subsection (a), the Director shall prepare 
        and submit to Congress a report on the curriculum described in 
        subsection (a).
            (2) Deadline for submission.--The report under paragraph 
        (1) shall be submitted not later than the earlier of--
                    (A) 180 days after the completion of the curriculum 
                development under subsection (a); or
                    (B) 3 years after the date of the enactment of this 
                section.
    (c) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) Antisemitism.--The term ``antisemitism'' has the 
        meaning given the working definition of antisemitism adopted by 
        the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 
        2016, including the contemporary examples of antisemitism cited 
        by the Alliance.
            (2) ESEA terms.--The terms ``local educational agency'', 
        ``secondary school'', and ``State'' have the meanings given 
        those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (3) Hamas' october 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against 
        israel.--The term ``Hamas' October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks 
        against Israel'' refers to the surprise land, sea, and air 
        attacks against Israel led by the Palestinian Sunni Islamist 
        group Hamas (a United States-designated foreign terrorist 
        organization) from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 (the 
        Jewish holiday Simchat Torah and 50 years after the 1973 Yom 
        Kippur War), in which Hamas brutally murdered, decapitated, 
        burned alive, and raped over 1,200 men, women, children, and 
        elderly, and kidnapped over 240 people, including Americans.
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