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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1591: Victims of Communism Remembrance Day.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1591 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Victims of Communism Remembrance Day. Primary sponsor: Martin Carbaugh (Republican). Most recent recorded action (January 21, 2025): First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Requires the governor to annually issue a proclamation designating the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Remembrance Day. Provides that suitable exercises in appropriate and solemn remembrance of the estimated 100,000,000 people whose deaths are attributed to the actions or policies of the world's communist regimes must be held in Indiana. Provides that a school corporation must include a study of the deaths attributed to the world's communist regimes in the school corporation's social studies curriculum. Requires the state board of education to adopt standards for teaching United States history in grade 9 through grade 12 that require at least 45 minutes of instruction on the history of communism.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Martin CarbaughPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse81

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform
  2. Authored by Representative Carbaugh

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source