Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act

Bill: 119-s-1182
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-03-27
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1182 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Antisemitism on College Campuses Act . 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. .