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This bill, the Restoring Civility on Campus Act of 2024, aims to address the surge in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents on college campuses in the United States following a specific attack on October 7, 2023. The key provisions of the bill include: 1) Requiring the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education to send an investigator in-person to each college or university that was the site of a complaint alleging discrimination based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, within 30 days of the complaint being filed; 2) Requiring the Office to prepare and publicly release regular reports on the status and findings of these investigations; 3) Allowing complainants and colleges/universities to request regular updates on the status of their cases; 4) Requiring Office staff to report to the Office in-person, except for conducting investigations; and 5) Authorizing the Secretary of Education to impose fines of up to $1 million on colleges and universities found to be non-compliant with reporting requirements under the Jeanne Clery Act, which mandates the disclosure of campus crime statistics.

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