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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1351H.P. 874 House of Representatives, April 1, 2025
An Act to Require Antisemitism to Be Considered as Motivation
When Determining a Violation of a Criminal or Civil Law
Received by the Clerk of the House on March 28, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Judiciary pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative GRIFFIN of Levant. Page 1 - 132LR1526(01)
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2 is enacted to read:
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4 working definition of "antisemitism" adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance
5 Alliance Plenary in Bucharest, Romania on May 26, 2016.
6 is enacted to read:
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8 criminal or civil law has occurred, an assessment of whether antisemitism was a motive, if
9 relevant, for that violation must be made.
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11 This bill defines "antisemitism" as the nonlegally binding working definition of
12 "antisemitism" adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Plenary in
13 Bucharest, Romania on May 26, 2016. The bill also amends the Maine Human Rights Act
14 to require that, when determining whether a violation of the Maine Human Rights Act or
15 any criminal or civil law has occurred, an assessment of whether antisemitism was a
16 motive, if relevant, for that violation must be made.
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