Legislation
HB 85
Status
Pending
Introduced
January 2025
Type(s)
Antisemitism Redefinition
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Further providing for unlawful discriminatory practices; and providing for unlawful discriminatory practices against certain religions.

Legislation
SB 954
Status
Pending
Introduced
January 2025
Type(s)
Antisemitism Redefinition
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Education; prohibiting certain exclusions, denials, and discrimination. Emergency.

*explicitly names boycotting Israeli entities as antisemitism

Legislation
SB 942
Status
Pending
Introduced
January 2025
Type(s)
Antisemitism Redefinition
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Education; prohibiting certain discrimination on certain basis against students or employees.

SB 942 requires public schools and universities to integrate the definition of antisemitism into
their codes of conduct and to integrate antisemitism awareness into their training for staff and
students. Schools are also required to treat antisemitism in the same manner as racial
discrimination.


The State Department of Education and the State Regents are required to designate a Title VI
coordinator to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment, who will thoroughly
investigate all submitted complaints.


If the coordinators determine the public school or university have not sufficiently handled a
complaint, they must send them a written notice. If the coordinators still feel the complaint is
unaddressed, they must report their findings to the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S.
Department of Justice.


The Title VI coordinators are required to submit an annual report to the legislature about the state
of antisemitism in schools.

Legislation
HB 1218
Status
Pending
Introduced
January 2025
Type(s)
Antisemitism Redefinition
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Discrimination; anti-Semitism; certain definition; purposes; construing provisions; effective date; emergency.

Latest Update: Referred to committee

Legislation
HB 90
Status
Pending
Introduced
January 2025
Type(s)
Antisemitism Redefinition
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Define antisemitism for certain purposes To amend section 4112.01 and to enact sections 124.92, 2701.21, and 4112.20 of the Revised Code to define antisemitism for the purpose of investigations and proceedings in courts and state agencies and for state employee anti-bias training

Legislation
SB 1954
Status
Pending
Introduced
January 2025
Type(s)
Antisemitism Redefinition
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Prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in certain antisemitic activities

Latest Update: Referred to Higher Education

Legislation
AB 4772
Status
Pending
Introduced
January 2025
Type(s)
Antisemitism Redefinition
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Enacts “the combating campus antisemitism act”; prohibits the granting of tuition assistance awards to any student who has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism in a manner that is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action, that constitutes “true threats”; makes related provisions.

Latest Update: Referred to Higher Education