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Official title: To direct the Attorney General to establish within the Department of Justice the Office of the National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 17, 2025 by Jerrold Lewis Nadler · Last progress December 17, 2025
The bill directs significant new federal funding, reporting, and centralized coordination to combat antisemitism and bolster campus and community safety, but it increases taxpayer costs, administrative burdens, and raises real risks to free‑speech, privacy, and agency flexibility.
Students, schools, and families: preserves and funds the Department of Education's civil‑rights office (OCR) with $280M/year through FY2032 and blocks reorganization, strengthening enforcement capacity and continuity for Title VI complaints.
Nonprofits and religious organizations: substantially higher authorized FEMA grant funding and improved FEMA staffing/administration (larger authorization levels and outreach) increase availability, speed, and accessibility of security and resilience grants.
Students, faculty, and staff on campuses: clearer complaint processes (annual notices, posted materials), mandatory compliance coordinators, and requirements to distinguish protected speech from Title VI violations improve reporting, investigations, and protections against discrimination and harassment.
Taxpayers and the federal budget: the bill creates substantial recurring federal spending (OCR funding, hate‑crime data funding, larger grant authorizations, and outreach programs), increasing federal outlays and competing with other priorities.
Students, faculty, and public debate: tying a single antisemitism definition and expanded monitoring/enforcement risks chilling protected speech and political expression on campuses and in public institutions.
Schools, colleges, and federal staff: the new and expanded reporting, data collection, unredacted submission requirements, monthly briefings, and new office staffing impose significant administrative burdens that may divert time and resources from frontline investigations or education.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Creates federal offices and reporting on antisemitism/domestic terrorism, expands hate‑crime data and nonprofit security grants, and requires campus Title VI coordinators and public awareness campaigns.
Creates new federal offices, funding, reporting, and campus requirements to identify, prevent, and respond to antisemitism and hate crimes. It authorizes multiyear funding for civil‑rights enforcement at the Department of Education, expands the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, creates a DOJ National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism and an FBI Hate Crime Reporting Center, and requires repeated federal reporting on domestic terrorism and extremist influence in public institutions. Requires colleges that participate in federal student aid programs to name a Title VI compliance coordinator, run annual public awareness campaigns about civil‑rights complaint processes, and file annual reports; bars conditioning nonprofit security grants on policies about immigration/DEI; and directs periodic federal reviews and public reporting to improve hate‑crime data and align federal efforts with the 2023 U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.