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OH HB90
Bill
Status
2/11/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jean Schmidt
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AI Summary
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Adopts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's May 26, 2016 working definition of antisemitism, including its contemporary examples, into Ohio's civil rights code (Chapter 4112)
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Requires Ohio courts, arbitrators, and special masters to apply the same legal standards to antisemitism discrimination claims as other discrimination claims under Chapter 4112
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Mandates state agencies use the antisemitism definition when reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether policy or law violations were motivated by antisemitism
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Requires the antisemitism definition be used as an educational tool in anti-discrimination and anti-bias training for state agency employees
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Includes a provision stating the definition shall not diminish First Amendment rights or conflict with federal, state, or local antidiscrimination laws
Legislative Description
Define antisemitism for certain purposes
State and Local Government : State Government
Last Action
Referred to committee: Judiciary
2/12/2025