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OH HB90

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/11/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jean Schmidt

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Origin

House of Representatives

136th General Assembly

AI Summary

  • 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)

  • Requires Ohio courts, arbitrators, and special masters to apply the same legal standards to antisemitism discrimination claims as other discrimination claims under Chapter 4112

  • Mandates state agencies use the antisemitism definition when reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether policy or law violations were motivated by antisemitism

  • Requires the antisemitism definition be used as an educational tool in anti-discrimination and anti-bias training for state agency employees

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/12/2025

Full Bill Text

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