Bill > S4262

Introduced Session

This bill establishes "The CAMPUS Act: Combating Antisemitism to Mitigate Prejudice in Universities and Schools," directs public institutions of higher education to include within its student conduct policy information on lawful acts of campus activism that maintain students' right to protest, petition, and assemble, and makes updates to various provisions of the "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act" (ABR). Under the bill, a public institution of higher education's HIB policy is to include a procedure for reporting an act of HIB and a procedure for prompt investigations of HIB reports. The bill also permits a public institution of higher education to impose disciplinary action on a student found to have committed an antisemitic act of HIB that includes academic probation, suspension, and expulsion. The bill directs a public institution of higher education to include within its student conduct policy information on lawful acts of campus activism that maintain students' rights to protest, petition, and assemble. The guidelines are to clearly identify impermissible acts of campus activism that may result in disciplinary action including, but not limited to: (1) damage to school and public property; (2) disruption of the institution's educational or business interests; (3) obstruction of the movement of others through the organization of encampments or blockades that interfere with other students' ability to enter or exit institution property; (4) protests on private property without consent; (5) acts of violence; (6) organizational affiliation with Foreign Terrorist Organizations as designated by the United States Secretary of State; such as Hamas; and (7) student behavior that constitutes a violation of the institution's HIB policy. The policy is to include information on disciplinary action that may result if a student violates this student conduct policy governing campus protests, including academic probation, suspension, expulsion, and referral to law enforcement. The bill also makes the following updates to the ABR for school districts: (1) provides that consequences and remedial action imposed for a first act of HIB may include suspension and expulsion when the basis for the complaint is antisemitic behavior; and (2) requires training on a school district's HIB policies that is provided to applicable school employees and volunteers to include information on how to identify and address antisemitic incidents of HIB. Finally, the bill requires instruction provided to students on the Holocaust and genocides to also include information on antisemitism and recent acts of terror and intimidation against the Jewish community.

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Douglas Steinhardt (R)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee (on 03/17/2025)

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