161.700. Holocaust education and awareness commission created, members--holocaust defined--executive director may be employed. - Missouri Statutes

Holocaust education and awareness commission created,members--holocaust defined--executive director may be employed.

161.700. 1. This section shall be known as the "Holocaust Educationand Awareness Commission Act".

2. There is hereby created a permanent state commission known as the"Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission". The commission shall behoused in the department of elementary and secondary education and shallpromote implementation of holocaust education and awareness programs inMissouri in order to encourage understanding of the holocaust anddiscourage bigotry.

3. The commission shall be composed of twelve members to be appointedby the governor with advice and consent of the senate. The makeup of thecommission shall be:

(1) The commissioner of higher education;

(2) The commissioner of elementary and secondary education;

(3) The president of the University of Missouri system; and

(4) Nine members of the public, representative of the diversereligious and ethnic heritage groups populating Missouri.

4. The holocaust education and awareness commission may receive suchfunds as appropriated from public moneys or contributed to it by privatesources. It may sponsor programs or publications to educate the publicabout the crimes of genocide in an effort to deter indifference to crimesagainst humanity and human suffering wherever they occur.

5. The term "holocaust" shall be defined as the period from 1933through 1945 when six million Jews and millions of others were murdered inNazi concentration camps as part of a structured, state-sanctioned programof genocide.

6. The commission may employ an executive director and such otherpersons to carry out its functions.

(L. 2006 S.B. 1189)