Combating Hate Across Campus

Bill: 118-hr-6883
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2023-12-22
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2023-12-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6883 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 22, 2023 Mr. Espaillat (for himself and Mrs. Watson Coleman ) 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 to track and record additional information on hate crimes, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Combating Hate Across Campus Act . 2. Disclosure of campus security policy and campus crime statistics Section 485(f)(1)(F)(ii) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1092(f)(1)(F)(ii) ) is amended by striking which data shall be collected and reported according to category of prejudice; and and inserting which data shall— (I) be collected and reported according to category of prejudice; and (II) disaggregated by subcategories based on the identity of the targeted individual or group, including— (aa) anti-Semitism; (bb) Islamophobia; (cc) homophobia; (dd) biphobia; (ee) transphobia; (ff) disability bias; (gg) in the case of an action targeting a particular ethnic group, the identity of the ethnic group; and (hh) such other subcategories as the Secretary determines appropriate; and .