Official Summaries

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.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 406 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 406

 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of 
  higher education, as a condition of participation in programs under 
 title IV of such Act, to include a prohibition of antisemitic conduct 
       in all documents relating to student or employee conduct.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2025

Mr. Yakym (for himself and Ms. Scholten) introduced the following bill; 
     which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of 
  higher education, as a condition of participation in programs under 
 title IV of such Act, to include a prohibition of antisemitic conduct 
       in all documents relating to student or employee conduct.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Promote Restoring Order To End 
Campus Targeting of Jewish Students and Faculty Act'' or the ``PROTECT 
Jewish Student and Faculty Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF ANTISEMITIC CONDUCT.

    Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1094(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(30) The institution will include, in all documents and 
        other resources relating to student or employee conduct on 
        campus--
                    ``(A) a definition of antisemitism which states 
                that--
                            ``(i) antisemitism is a certain perception 
                        of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred 
                        toward Jews; and
                            ``(ii) rhetorical and physical 
                        manifestations of antisemitism may be directed 
                        toward--
                                    ``(I) Jewish or non-Jewish 
                                individuals, including the property of 
                                such individuals; and
                                    ``(II) Jewish community 
                                institutions and religious facilities; 
                                and
                    ``(B) a statement that antisemitic conduct is 
                prohibited on campus, and that such conduct--
                            ``(i) by a student may result in the 
                        expulsion of the student from the institution; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) by an employee may result in the 
                        termination of the employee's employment at the 
                        institution.''.
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