AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to enacting the “Honoring Our Pledge to Eliminate Antisemitism (HOPE) act”
Latest Update: Referred to rules
Requests public postsecondary education institutions in Louisiana to adopt policies and procedures to combat antisemitism on campus
Last Update: Signed / Enacted / Adopted
Establishes State definition of antisemitism.
Latest Update: Reported from Assembly Comm. as a Substitute, 2nd Reading.
Declaring antisemitism and antisemitic acts to be against public policy and establishing a statutory definition of such terms.
Latest Update: Senate Approved by Governor on Tuesday April 8, 2025
To provide for the consideration of a definition of antisemitism set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws concerning education programs or activities, and for other purposes.
Latest Update: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
This antisemitism redefinition bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher education from participating in federal student loan and grant programs if they “authorize, facilitate, provide funding for, or otherwise support” events that run afoul of the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism, including its contemporary examples that target advocacy for Palestinian rights.
SRes 254 is a non-binding resolution that encourages federal, state, and local government entities, as well as academic institutions, civil society organizations, and other relevant stakeholders, to “adopt and exclusively utilize” the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish discrimination and has been deployed primarily to silence and punish advocacy for Palestinian rights.
S 0419 is an antisemitism redefinition bill that adopts the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism, including its contemporary examples that target advocacy for Palestinian rights, into state anti-discrimination law. This bill also states the IHRA definition of antisemitism will be used for educational purposes with state personnel. Related Bill: H 3686.
H 3686 is an antisemitism redefinition bill that adopts the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism, including its contemporary examples that target advocacy for Palestinian rights, into state anti-discrimination law. This bill also states the IHRA definition of antisemitism will be used for educational purposes with state personnel. Related Bill: S 0419.
S0649 is an antisemitism redefinition bill that adopts the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism, including its contemporary examples that target advocacy for Palestinian rights, into state anti-discrimination law. The explanation accompanying the text states, “ This act would define “anti-Semitism” for the state human affairs commission to use while investigating and working to resolve complaints of discrimination and for the commission against prejudice and bias to use in defining hate crimes.”
