Rhode Island General Laws 16-93.1-1. Short title

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This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Rhode Island Holocaust and Genocide Education Commission.”

History of Section.
P.L. 2021, ch. 274, § 2, effective July 9, 2021; P.L. 2021, ch. 275, § 2, effective July 9, 2021.

Genocide: means any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group such as:

(i) Killing members of that group;

(ii) Causing serious bodily injury to members of that group;

(iii) Causing permanent impairment of the mental faculties of members of the group through drugs, torture, or similar techniques;

(iv) Subjecting the group to conditions of life that are intended to cause the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part;

(v) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or

(vi) Forcibly transferring or attempting to transfer children of the group to another group, as defined by the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 (18 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-93.1-2
Holocaust: means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million (6,000,000) Jews and five million (5,000,000) other individuals by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-93.1-2