Amends TCA Title 49.

ON APRIL 11, 2022, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2673, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to require that, if a state governmental entity or an LEA receives a complaint from a person who alleges that antisemitism has occurred on the premises of a public school serving any of the grades K-12, or through electronic outreach from a public school serving any of the grades K-12, then the respective state governmental entity or LEA consider the working definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on May 26, 2016, including the "contemporary examples of antisemitism," in determining whether the alleged act was motivated by antisemitic intent. This amendment requires state governmental entities and institutions of higher education to make the same consideration if the entity or institution receives a complaint from a person who alleges that antisemitism has occurred on the premises of an institution of higher education, or through electronic outreach from an institution of higher education. ON APRIL 14, 2022, THE SENATE SUBSTITUTED HOUSE BILL 2673 FOR SENATE BILL 2684, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1, AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2673, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill and: (1) Prohibits and bans in all K-12 schools all discriminatory acts and practices committed against individuals or institutions based on the individual's or institution's Jewish religious practices or on the tenets of the Jewish religion, shared Jewish ancestry, or Jewish ethnic characteristics; (2) Allows a person who alleges that their civil rights have been violated by a discriminatory anti-Semitic act or practice that occurred on the premises of a public school serving any of the grades K-12, or through electronic outreach from a public school serving any of the grades K-12, to file a complaint with the LEA regarding the act or practice. This amendment sets out in detail the requirements for such a filing. The LEA must investigate the complaint in a timely manner and determine whether the act or practice occurred, and if so, by whom it was perpetrated, and whether it was discriminatory. To determine whether the act or practice was a discriminatory act or practice of anti-Semitism or motivated by anti-Semitic intent, the LEAs must take into consideration the definition and examples of anti-Semitism provided in this amendment. The LEA must complete its determination within 90 days of the LEA's receipt of the initial complaint. (3) Requires LEAs to submit an annual report to the department of education regarding the investigation, disposition, and determination of a complaint filed with the LEA during the school year immediately preceding the date on which the report is submitted to the department alleging that a discriminatory anti-Semitic act or practice was committed in violation of this amendment; (4) Specifies that this amendment does not prohibit the discussion of, or the use of textbooks or instructional materials regarding, the history of Jews, Judaism, or the State of Israel, that is part of a larger course of academic instruction; and states that this amendment does not diminish or infringe upon the right to worship under the state constitution or the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and (5) Establishes similar requirements to those described above for institutions of higher education, with a complaint to be filed with, and investigated by, the respective institution. ON APRIL 25, 2022, THE HOUSE NON-CONCURRED IN SENATE AMENDMENT #1. ON APRIL 27, 2022, THE SENATE LIFTED THE TABLING MOTION, RECONSIDERED ITS ACTIONS IN ADOPTING SENATE AMENDMENT #1, AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2673.