On June 18, 2014, with a vote of 7-0, the California Senate Education Committee unanimously passed AB 1915, a bill requiring the inclusion of the Armenian Genocide in the list of studied subject areas for the adopted courses of study in Social Science for grades 7-12,

Joint-authored by Assembly Members Adrin Nazarian and Katcho Achadjian, the bill also recommends that the California Department of Education includes the atrocities of 1915 into publications and curriculum materials, and encourages the incorporation of an oral history component into the teaching of human rights, and genocides, including the Holocaust, Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides.

Prior to the Senate Education Committee hearing, the language of AB1915 was amended to consolidate and include language from AB 659, another bill introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian earlier this year, which encourages schools to use oral histories when teaching about the Armenian Genocide and other acts against humanity.