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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1069
To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to recoup certain payments of
Federal financial assistance.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH13, 2025
Mrs. M
OODYintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to recoup certain
payments of Federal financial assistance.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Recouping Educational 4
Contributions Linked to Antisemitic Institutional Mis-5
conduct Act’’ or the ‘‘RECLAIM Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. EFFECT ON ENTIRE PROGRAM OF TERMINATION OF 1
OR REFUSAL TO GRANT OR TO CONTINUE AS-2
SISTANCE. 3
Section 602 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 4
U.S.C. 2000d–1) is amended, in paragraph (1) of the 5
third sentence, by striking ‘‘shall be limited in its effect 6
to the particular program, or part thereof, in which such 7
noncompliance has been so found,’’ and inserting ‘‘shall 8
apply to the entire program or activity in which such non-9
compliance has been so found,’’. 10
SEC. 3. RECOUPING CERTAIN PAYMENTS OF FEDERAL FI-11
NANCIAL ASSISTANCE. 12
Section 602 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 13
U.S.C. 2000d–1) is amended, in the third sentence— 14
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-15
graph (3); and 16
(2) by inserting after ‘‘found,’’ the following: 17
‘‘(2) by requiring a recipient to repay the amount of 18
any Federal financial assistance provided to the re-19
cipient for a program or activity for a fiscal year 20
during which the recipient is found (in accordance 21
with the procedures described in paragraph (1)) to 22
be in such noncompliance concerning the program or 23
activity (without regard to whether the Federal fi-24
nancial assistance has been expended), which shall 25
be collected as a claim of the United States Govern-26
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ment in accordance with chapter 37 of title 31, 1
United States Code,’’. 2
SEC. 4. LIMIT ON FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AFTER 3
CERTAIN INJUNCTIONS. 4
Section 603 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 5
U.S.C. 2000d–2) is amended— 6
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘Any’’ and 7
inserting ‘‘(a) Any’’; and 8
(2) by adding at the end the following: 9
‘‘(b) If a court issues an injunction in a case, for a 10
claim in which a recipient of Federal financial assistance 11
for a program or activity is alleged to be in violation of 12
this title— 13
‘‘(1) the Federal department or agency empow-14
ered to extend the Federal financial assistance shall 15
not provide any Federal financial assistance to the 16
recipient until the earlier of— 17
‘‘(A) the date on which the court certifies 18
that the recipient is in compliance with the in-19
junction; or 20
‘‘(B) the date that is 1 year after the date 21
of issuance of the injunction; 22
‘‘(2) the Federal department or agency shall 23
notify the other Federal departments and agencies 24
covered by this title of the injunction; and 25
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‘‘(3) those Federal departments and agencies 1
shall not provide any Federal financial assistance to 2
the recipient until the earlier of the dates specified 3
in paragraph (1).’’. 4
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