PROTECT Jewish Student and Faculty Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7478 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7478

 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

                           February 29, 2024

  Mr. Yakym introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the 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) 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.''.
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