HB 1197 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1197
AN ACT encouraging school districts to offer instruction on the causes and effects of the Great Irish Hunger.
SPONSORS: Rep. W. McCarthy, Hills 41; Rep. Buckley, Hills 44; Rep. J. McDonald, Hills 41; Rep. Kelley, Rock 22; Rep. J. White, Hills 46
This bill allows school districts to offer instruction on the causes and effects of the Great Irish Hunger and authorizes the development of suitable curriculum materials.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2324 04/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT encouraging school districts to offer instruction on the causes and effects of the Great Irish Hunger.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; School Districts; Instruction in the Great Irish Hunger. Amend RSA 194 by inserting after section 17 the following new section:
194:17-a Instruction in the Great Irish Hunger. A school district may include instruction in the causes and effects of the mass starvation in nineteenth-century Ireland known as the Great Irish Hunger. The study of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free people of all nations to eradicate the causes of famine, whether political or natural, that exists in the modern world. A school district may develop curriculum materials suitable for providing such instruction.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.