HB 2867 Summary

• Prohibits public school teachers, administrators, and staff from teaching, instructing, or promoting antisemitism or anti-Semitic conduct that constitutes harassment or discrimination and creates a hostile educational environment.

• Bars public schools and teachers from applying for, soliciting, or using funding or materials to teach antisemitism or provide related professional development, and prohibits use of public monies to support such instruction.

• Establishes a complaint and discipline process allowing students, parents, and teachers to report violations to school officials, with potential penalties ranging from formal reprimand (first violation) to certificate suspension (second violation) to certificate revocation (third violation) for teachers and principals.

• Permits students aged 18+ or parents of minor students to file civil lawsuits after exhausting internal remedies, allowing courts to award actual damages, consequential damages, punitive damages, attorney fees, and court costs; bars public schools from using taxpayer funds to pay judgments.

• Extends similar prohibitions and procedures to higher education institutions, with employment consequences including formal reprimand (first violation), suspension (second violation), and termination (third violation) for faculty and staff; defines "antisemitism" using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition adopted by the U.S. Department of State.