This bill establishes new procedures for investigating discrimination complaints on college campuses, particularly targeting alleged violations based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics following the October 7, 2023 attack in Israel. The legislation requires the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to send investigators in-person to colleges within 30 days of receiving qualifying complaints and to provide public reports every 30 days describing the nature, findings, and outcomes of these investigations. The bill also mandates that colleges comply with campus crime reporting requirements and imposes fines of up to $1,000,000 per violation for institutions that fail to properly disclose hate crime categories, with these requirements applying to complaints filed between October 7, 2023 and two years after the bill's enactment. Additionally, the legislation requires Office for Civil Rights staff to work in-person at their offices and mandates that colleges report on disciplinary procedures related to discrimination complaints. All of these new requirements are set to expire two years after the bill becomes law.
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