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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 significantly boosts federal coordination, funding, and transparency to prevent antisemitism and hate—improving security, enforcement, and data—but at the cost of higher taxpayer spending, added administrative burdens, constrained agency flexibility, and potential free‑speech, privacy, and politicization risks.
Religious congregations, Jewish organizations, and other nonprofits will have greater access to federal security grants and support, increasing physical protection and resources for at-risk sites.
Students, schools, and families benefit from strengthened civil‑rights enforcement and sustained OCR funding ($280M/year FY2027–FY2032), improving investigation capacity and continuity for Title VI complaints.
Federal responses to antisemitism and related hate will be more coordinated across agencies through a central coordinator, regular reviews, enhanced hate‑crime counts, and consolidated threat assessments, improving data-driven policymaking and interagency consistency.
Taxpayers will face materially higher federal spending commitments (OCR $280M/year, $50M/year for hate‑crime work, larger FEMA authorizations, new office staffing and outreach), creating budgetary tradeoffs with other priorities.
Students, campus communities, cultural institutions, and commentators risk chilling of protected speech and academic debate because adopting and applying a single antisemitism definition and heightened enforcement could be used to adjudicate political expression.
Colleges, federal agencies, and nonprofits will face increased administrative and compliance burdens (new reporting, designated coordinators, unredacted submissions, monthly/annual briefs), raising recurring costs and diverting staff time from core work.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Creates federal offices and reporting, boosts hate‑crime reporting and security grants, and requires Title VI coordinators, campus awareness campaigns, and annual reporting by institutions.
Creates a coordinated federal effort to counter antisemitism through new offices, reporting, education, funding, and updated requirements for schools and security grant programs. It authorizes multi-year funding for civil rights enforcement, FBI hate-crime reporting, nonprofit security grants, and public awareness campaigns, and requires recurring federal reports on extremist threats and domestic terrorism. Requires colleges that receive federal funds to name Title VI compliance coordinators, run annual Title VI awareness efforts, and submit annual reports; establishes an Office of the National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism at DOJ; creates an FBI Hate Crime Reporting Center; expands and restricts administration of the Nonprofit Security Grant Program at FEMA; and increases Education Department OCR staffing and oversight protections.