Bill Details
S.1182 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced Date
2025-03-27
Policy Area
Education
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This bill would make colleges and universities ineligible for federal student loan and grant programs if they allow events on campus that promote antisemitism. In simple terms, it says schools must not authorize, help, fund, or otherwise support antisemitic events if they want to keep taking part in the federal financial aid programs covered by the Higher Education Act. The bill also says antisemitism would be judged using the working definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, including its examples.
- Schools would have to agree that they will not support any campus event that promotes antisemitism in order to participate in federal student aid programs.
- The bill uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s 2016 working definition of antisemitism as the standard for deciding what counts.
- If a school breaks this rule, it could lose access to student loan and grant programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1182 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1182
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of
higher education that authorize antisemitic events on campus from
participating in the student loan and grant programs under title IV of
such Act.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 27, 2025
Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Moreno,
Mrs. Blackburn, Mrs. Britt, and Mr. Daines) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of
higher education that authorize antisemitic events on campus from
participating in the student loan and grant programs under title IV of
such Act.
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 ``Stop Antisemitism on College
Campuses Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF ANTISEMITIC EVENTS ON CAMPUS.
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)(A) The institution will not authorize, facilitate,
provide funding for, or otherwise support any event promoting
antisemitism on campus.
``(B) In this paragraph, the term `antisemitism' has the
meaning given the working definition of antisemitism adopted by
the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26,
2016, including the contemporary examples of antisemitism cited
by the Alliance.''.
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