COLUMBIA Act of 2025
Introduced Feb 5, 2025 by Rep. Ritchie Torres
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This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to establish a program to appoint third-party anti-Semitism monitors at certain institutions of higher education (IHEs). Specifically, ED must establish this program to appoint a monitor at an IHE that (1) has a high incidence of anti-Semitic activity (based on data received from ED's Office for Civil Rights), and (2) receives federal funds for higher education.
ED must develop an anti-Semitism monitorship agreement that (1) designates the terms and conditions of the monitorship, and (2) requires the IHE to provide for the monitor's reasonable expenses.
The bill requires the monitor to
operate under the monitorship agreement developed by ED and entered into with the IHE;
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
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