Overview
- HB 333 would require that any instruction on Jan. 6 describe it as an unprecedented, violent attack on U.S. democratic institutions.
- The bill prohibits portraying the event as a peaceful protest or presenting claims of extensive 2020 election fraud as credible.
- If signed, the policy would take effect immediately and applies only when schools choose to teach about Jan. 6.
- Sponsor Del. Dan Helmer says the goal is to prevent what he calls efforts to rewrite the history of the attack.
- Opponents, including the Virginia Assembly of Independent Baptists, denounce the measure as indoctrination, and reporting notes the bill specifies no criminal penalties for violations.