Amends TCA Title 49.

This bill requires the standards recommendation committee to include events of the Civil Rights Movement during the period from 1954 to 1968 in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies for students in grades nine through 12, including: (1) Jim Crow-era laws (2) The leadership, tactics, and strategies of nonviolent resistance to Jim Crow-era laws used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; (3) The principles of natural rights and natural law that informed the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; (4) Civil rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964; and (5) The Voting Rights Act of 1965. ON MARCH 28, 2022, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2291, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 urges instead of requires the standards recommendation committee to include the standards referenced in this bill. ON APRIL 14, 2022, THE SENATE SUBSTITUTED HOUSE BILL 2291 FOR SENATE BILL 2508, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #2, AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2508, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #2 adds that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 be included in the events to be covered as part of the instruction urged by this bill.