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Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025

Introduced Feb 13, 2025Senate billPolicy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority IssuesLast action Apr 30, 2025Sponsor: Tim Scott(R-SC)

Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

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What the bill does

Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025 This bill provides statutory authority for the requirement that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights take into consideration the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA's) working definition of antisemitism when reviewing or investigating complaints of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. According to the IHRA's working definition, antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.

Latest official action

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$6.6M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Feb 13, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE

Jul 17, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

Jul 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Apr 30, 2025Committee

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

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Feb 13, 2025IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S973-974)

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

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Feb 13, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in Senate

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE	AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE	$880.1K	Jul 17, 2025	2025Q2	FORBUDDEF
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$700.0K	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	CIVBUDEDU
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.