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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 strengthens federal coordination, funding, data collection, and education to prevent antisemitism and protect targeted communities, at the cost of substantial recurring federal spending, increased administrative and reporting burdens, potential privacy risks, and legal/First Amendment tensions.
Jewish communities, houses of worship, and faith-based nonprofits will receive substantially more federal grant funding and security support, improving physical safety and capacity to protect at-risk sites.
Students, schools, and campus communities gain stronger civil‑rights enforcement capacity and sustained funding (notably $280M/year for OCR), preserving OCR's mission and improving complaint handling and oversight.
Colleges and K–12 institutions will have clearer processes for reporting and resolving complaints (annual notice campaigns, designated compliance coordinators, public reporting, and guidance to distinguish Title VI violations from protected political speech), increasing transparency and access to remedies.
Taxpayers and budget-makers face substantial new recurring federal costs (notably OCR $280M/year, $50M/year for hate‑crime data, and higher FEMA authorizations), increasing the federal spending footprint and competing with other priorities.
Colleges, federal agencies, and nonprofits will face significant new administrative and reporting burdens (policy updates, monthly/annual reports, unredacted submissions, biennial reviews, and a new office), diverting staff time and resources from frontline work.
Tying federal actions to a particular definition and imposing mandates to distinguish political speech risks chilling lawful expression, triggering campus disputes, and producing litigation over what counts as protected speech versus actionable discrimination.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Creates DOJ and FBI coordinating offices, expands OCR authority and funding, strengthens nonprofit security grants, and requires campus Title VI compliance, reporting, and awareness efforts.
Creates new federal offices, reporting, funding, and campus requirements to measure, prevent, and respond to antisemitism and related hate crimes. It funds the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, creates an Office of the National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism at DOJ, establishes an FBI Hate Crime Reporting Center, strengthens the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, and requires recurring federal reporting on extremist ideology and domestic terrorism. Requires colleges that participate in federal student aid programs to designate Title VI compliance coordinators, run annual public-awareness campaigns, and submit annual reports about complaints; authorizes multi-year funding for OCR enforcement, hate-crime data collection, nonprofit security grants, and related public-awareness campaigns; and imposes new reporting and oversight duties across several federal agencies to align efforts with the 2023 U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism while guarding against misuse of antisemitism definitions for punitive actions.