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This bill significantly centralizes and funds federal efforts to define, monitor, and prevent antisemitism and related hate — improving resources, coordination, and protections for targeted communities and campuses — but it does so at substantial taxpayer cost and with trade-offs around speech, privacy, administrative burden, and risks of politicized or inflexible federal control.
Federal agencies and government actors will operate with a single, consistent statutory definition of antisemitism and standardized guidance, improving coordination across many agencies.
Students — especially Jewish students — and campus communities will gain clearer Title VI reporting procedures, a named coordinator, and stronger protections that can improve campus safety and complaint resolution.
Civil-rights enforcement capacity will be expanded through dedicated funding (notably OCR funding) and more regular oversight and reporting, enabling more timely investigations and accountability.
Taxpayers will fund substantial new and ongoing federal spending (hundreds of millions per year across OCR, grants, HCRC, and outreach), increasing budgetary pressure.
The law could chill free speech and academic freedom: mandatory reporting, new complaint processes, and disputed applications of a statutory definition may lead institutions to over‑restrict political expression or classroom debate.
Mandated reporting, public naming of complaints or grant recipients, and monitoring activities risk privacy, safety, and reputational harms for victims, employees, and nonprofit grantees.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Creates new federal offices, reporting, education, and funding to counter antisemitism, adds campus compliance duties, and increases nonprofit security grant funding while protecting free speech.
Introduced December 17, 2025 by Jerrold Lewis Nadler · Last progress December 17, 2025
Creates new federal offices, reporting, staff, funding, and institutional requirements to prevent and respond to antisemitism across colleges, federal agencies, law enforcement, and nonprofit security programs. It authorizes multi-year funding for the Department of Education OCR, a DOJ national coordinator office, an FBI hate-crime reporting center, and expanded FEMA nonprofit-security grants and public awareness activities, while inserting campus compliance duties and recurring reporting and oversight requirements with timelines for implementation.