HR406Referred to Committee
PROTECT Jewish Student and Faculty Act
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-01-15
Introduced
8
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Rudy Yakym III
Republican · IN · Representative
Votes with party: 99.3% (673 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/Y000067
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (8)
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Committee Activity
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- House Committee on Education and WorkforceReferred To · 2025-01-15
Plain-English Summary
Promote Restoring Order To End Campus Targeting of Jewish Students and Faculty Act or the PROTECT Jewish Student and Faculty Act This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student aid programs to adopt a standard definition of anti-Semitism in their student and employee codes of conduct and prohibit such conduct on campus. Specifically, the IHE must include in its documents related to student and employee conduct a definition of anti-Semitism which states that (1) anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews; and (2) rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism may be directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals, including the property of such individuals, and Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. (This definition is the same as the working definition of anti-Semitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.) Additionally, the IHE must include in such documents a statement that anti-Semitic conduct is prohibited on campus and that such conduct may result in expulsion or termination of employment.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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Education
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