PROTECT Jewish Student and Faculty Act

Bill: 118-hr-7478
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2024-02-29
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education

Racial and ethnic relations

Religion

School administration
Latest action: action_date: 2024-02-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7478 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 29, 2024 Mr. Yakym introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 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.

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 . 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) the working definition of antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; 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. .