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	Amend SB 482 (house committee printing) by striking all below 
the enacting clause and substituting the following:
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 442, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Subchapter D to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER D.  TEXAS HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE PROGRAM
	Sec. 442.101.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:                        
		(1)  "Genocide" means any of the following acts 
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, 
ethnical, racial, or religious group as such:
			(A)  killing members of the group;                                    
			(B)  causing serious bodily or mental harm to 
members of the group; 
			(C)  deliberately inflicting on the group 
conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical 
destruction in whole or in part;
			(D)  imposing measures intended to prevent births 
within the group; or
			(E)  forcibly transferring children of the group 
to another group.  
		(2)  "Holocaust" means the killing of approximately six 
million Jews and millions of other persons during World War II by 
the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) and Nazi 
collaborators as part of a state-sponsored, systematic program of 
genocide and other actions of persecution, discrimination, 
violence, or other human rights violations committed by the Nazis 
and Nazi collaborators against those persons.
	Sec. 442.102.  TEXAS HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE PROGRAM.  (a)  
The commission shall:
		(1)  provide advice and assistance to public and 
private primary and secondary schools and institutions of higher 
education in this state regarding implementation of Holocaust and 
genocide courses of study and awareness programs;
		(2)  meet with appropriate representatives of public 
and private organizations, including service organizations, to 
provide information on and to assist in planning, coordinating, or 
modifying Holocaust and genocide courses of study and awareness 
programs;
		(3)  determine which, if any, existing Holocaust or 
other genocide memorials, exhibits, or other resources could be 
included in or used to support Holocaust and genocide courses of 
study and awareness programs;
		(4)  compile a list of volunteers, such as Holocaust or 
other genocide survivors, liberators of concentration camps, 
scholars, and members of the clergy, who have agreed to share, in 
classrooms, seminars, exhibits, or workshops, their verifiable 
knowledge and experiences regarding the Holocaust or other 
genocide;
		(5)  coordinate events in this state memorializing the 
Holocaust and other genocides on January 27, International 
Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the Days of Remembrance established 
by the United States Congress, or on any other day designated by the 
commission for that purpose; and
		(6)  solicit volunteers to participate in 
commemorative events designed to enhance public awareness of the 
continuing significance of the Holocaust and other genocides.
	(b)  In implementing Subsection (a)(3), the commission may 
contact and cooperate with:
		(1)  existing public or private Holocaust or other 
genocide resource organizations, including the United States 
Holocaust Memorial Museum;
		(2)  other museums, centers, and organizations based in 
this state;  
		(3)  state agencies that carry out the educational 
functions of the state delegated under the Education Code, 
including the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Higher Education 
Coordinating Board; and
		(4)  members of the United States Congress and of the 
legislature of this state.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.