Loading chat...
NY A08399
Bill
Status
12/13/2023
Primary Sponsor
Eric Brown
Click for details
AI Summary
-
Prohibits tuition assistance awards to students in any academic year who knowingly engage in promoting antisemitism directed at inciting imminent lawless action, constituting "true threats" as defined in Virginia v. Black (2003), or "fighting words" as defined in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)
-
Applies the restriction to all tuition assistance programs including: part-time student awards under Education Law section 666, tuition assistance program awards under section 667, supplemental tuition assistance awards under section 667-a, and part-time tuition assistance awards under section 667-c
-
Defines "antisemitism" using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition from May 26, 2016, including contemporary examples cited by that organization
-
Requires the Higher Education Services Corporation of New York to establish guidelines for determining when a student has knowingly engaged in promoting antisemitism and for actions to restore or resume tuition assistance awards
-
Takes effect immediately upon enactment
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
held for consideration in higher education
4/9/2024