CT SB00980

Each Connecticut higher education institution must appoint a Title VI coordinator for every campus by September 1, 2025, responsible for handling hate incident complaints, coordinating staff training, and collecting data on campus climate related to racial, religious, or ethnic discrimination

Institutions must adopt hate incident policies by January 1, 2026, including mandatory training for all staff, administrators, and faculty on responding to hate incidents during classes or events

"Hate incident" is defined as speech or conduct including intimidation, harassment, and threatening that is motivated by hatred, prejudice, bias, or bigotry based on actual or perceived race, religious identity, or ethnicity

Each institution must establish a campus task force to combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other religious-based hatred, composed of representatives from administration, counseling, campus police, faculty, staff, students, and residential life

Institutions must establish partnerships between campus police and local/state law enforcement to coordinate security for student groups at heightened risk of terrorist attacks, hate crimes, or violent acts