Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 2191: Standards of Learning and programs of instruction; recognition of dangers and victims of communism.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
HB 2191 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Standards of Learning and programs of instruction; recognition of dangers and victims of communism. Primary sponsor: Nicholas J. Freitas. Most recent recorded action (February 4, 2025): Left in Education.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 million individuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world and to be suitably observed by a public exercise in the Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor may designate in such proclamation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to include in the history and social science Standards of Learning in grades six through 12 and each school board to emphasize in its Standards-aligned program of instruction in grades six through 12 the study of the dangers of communism.
Sponsors
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas J. Freitas | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Left in Education
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2191)
- Referred to Committee on Education
- Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100794D