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Committee adopts amendment limiting SB 87’s antisemitism definition to civil and administrative uses
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Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee adopted an amendment narrowing SB 87’s definition of antisemitism to state agencies and civil or administrative investigations and later voted to favorably report the bill to Rules and Reference after tabling other amendments.
The Senate Judiciary Committee considered multiple amendments to Senate Bill 87 during its fourth hearing and adopted a key restriction limiting the bill’s definition of antisemitism to state agencies and to civil or administrative investigations.
Vice Chair Reynolds moved to adopt Amendment 17-35, and the committee recorded that the amendment specifies the bill’s definition of antisemitism is to be applied by state agencies when reviewing, investigating or deciding alleged violations of policy, law or regulation for civil or administrative matters — not for criminal investigations. The amendment was adopted without recorded objection.
Ranking Member Hicks Hudson sought to ensure the amendment would not permit the definition to “bleed over” into criminal cases; the committee clerk and staff cited an LSC synopsis confirming the amendment’s civil and administrative limitation. Later, members debated and tabled additional amendments, including one that would have edited expansions related to ethnic intimidation and another proposing replacement of the IHRA definition with the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism; both motions to table were carried. Vice Chair Reynolds then moved to favorably report SB 87 to the Committee on Rules and Reference, and the motion carried.
The committee’s action was recorded as a favorable referral to Rules and Reference; the full bill text and any committee report will determine the precise statutory effect of the adopted amendment.
