SB2: Public schools; textbooks approved by BOE shall note Sea of Japan is also referred to as East Sea.


SENATE BILL NO. 2
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Education and Health
on January 16, 2014)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Marsden)
A BILL to require approved textbooks to refer to the Sea of Japan as the East Sea.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That all textbooks approved by the Board of Education pursuant to § 22.1-238 of the Code of Virginia, when referring to the Sea of Japan, shall note that it is also referred to as the East Sea.

2. That the provisions of this act shall not affect any textbook approved by the Board of Education prior to July 1, 2014.

SENATE BILL NO. 2

Offered January 8, 2014
Prefiled December 3, 2013
A BILL to require approved textbooks to refer to the Sea of Japan as the East Sea.
Patron-- Marsden
Referred to Committee on Education and Health

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That all textbooks approved by the Board of Education pursuant to § 22.1-238 of the Code of Virginia, when referring to the Sea of Japan, shall note that it is also referred to as the East Sea.