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                                   8284
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 27, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. E. BROWN, BENDETT, DeSTEFANO, STERN, MORINELLO,
   BEEPHAN, LEMONDES, SLATER,  BLANKENBUSH,  FLOOD,  GALLAHAN,  GANDOLFO,
   SMITH,  BRABENEC, NOVAKHOV, TAGUE, SIMPSON, FITZPATRICK, BROOK-KRASNY,
   HAWLEY, MANKTELOW, JENSEN, CHANG, MCGOWAN,  SMULLEN,  MIKULIN,  DURSO,
   BLUMENCRANZ,  RA,  McDONOUGH,  K. BROWN,  GOODELL,  ANGELINO, BARCLAY,
   MAHER, PIROZZOLO, MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Higher Education
 
 AN ACT in relation  to  enacting  the  "stop  anti-Semitism  on  college
   campuses act"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "stop anti-Semitism on college campuses act."
   §  2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation,
 no state aid shall be granted to any college or university that  author-
 izes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports any event
 promoting anti-Semitism on campus.
   §  3. The term "anti-Semitism" means the public demonstration of nega-
 tive actions, behaviors or perceptions regarding those persons  practic-
 ing the Jewish religion or exhibiting a Jewish heritage, including:
   a.  hatred  or  severe disparagement toward the Jewish people or their
 culture;
   b. rhetorical, violent and/or physical manifestations directed against
 Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or property,  Jewish  community  insti-
 tutions, and/or Jewish religious facilities;
   c.  the calling for, aiding, encouraging, supporting or justifying the
 killing, harming or defaming of anyone, simply for practicing the Jewish
 religion or exhibiting a Jewish heritage;
   d. making false and mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, demeaning or
 stereotypical allegations, about persons practicing the Jewish religion,
 or about those who exhibit a Jewish heritage, or about the myth about  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 world  Jewish  conspiracy, or about Jewish persons allegedly controlling
 the media, economy, government or other societal institutions;
   e.  accusing  those  practicing  the  Jewish religion, or exhibiting a
 Jewish heritage, whether singularly or  collectively,  as  being  wholly
 responsible  for  any  real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single
 Jewish person or group;
   f. accusing those practicing the  Jewish  religion,  or  exhibiting  a
 Jewish  heritage,  whether  singularly  or collectively, as being wholly
 responsible for any real or imagined wrongdoing committed by  the  state
 of Israel; and
   g.  accusing  those  practicing  the  Jewish religion, or exhibiting a
 Jewish heritage, whether singularly or collectively, of being more loyal
 to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jewish people worldwide, than
 to the interests of the people of the state  of  New  York,  or  to  the
 interests of the people of the United States of America.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.