Bill Summary for H 942 (2023-2024)

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Bill: SHALOM ACT.

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Apr 30 2024

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
House Bill 942 (Public) Filed Tuesday, April 30, 2024
AN ACT STANDING UP TO HATE AND LEADING WITH OUR MORAL PRINCIPLES.
Intro. by Moore, Ross, Cotham, Paré.

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Enacts new GS 12-13.2 adopting the Working Definition of Antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, as a tool and guide for training, education, recognizing, and combating antisemitic hate crimes or discrimination and for tracking and reporting antisemitic incidents in North Carolina. Specifies that this is not to be construed to diminish or infringe upon any rights protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution or the NC Constitution. 

Appropriates $10,000 for 2024-25 from the General Fund to the Department of Administration to fund implementation of and education about this act. Effective July 1, 2024.