[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1069 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1069

  To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to recoup certain payments of 
                     Federal financial assistance.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2025

  Mrs. Moody introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Recouping Educational Contributions 
Linked to Antisemitic Institutional Misconduct Act'' or the ``RECLAIM 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EFFECT ON ENTIRE PROGRAM OF TERMINATION OF OR REFUSAL TO GRANT 
              OR TO CONTINUE ASSISTANCE.

    Section 602 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d-1) is 
amended, in paragraph (1) of the third sentence, by striking ``shall be 
limited in its effect to the particular program, or part thereof, in 
which such noncompliance has been so found,'' and inserting ``shall 
apply to the entire program or activity in which such noncompliance has 
been so found,''.

SEC. 3. RECOUPING CERTAIN PAYMENTS OF FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

    Section 602 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d-1) is 
amended, in the third sentence--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
            (2) by inserting after ``found,'' the following: ``(2) by 
        requiring a recipient to repay the amount of any Federal 
        financial assistance provided to the recipient for a program or 
        activity for a fiscal year during which the recipient is found 
        (in accordance with the procedures described in paragraph (1)) 
        to be in such noncompliance concerning the program or activity 
        (without regard to whether the Federal financial assistance has 
        been expended), which shall be collected as a claim of the 
        United States Government in accordance with chapter 37 of title 
        31, United States Code,''.

SEC. 4. LIMIT ON FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AFTER CERTAIN 
              INJUNCTIONS.

    Section 603 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d-2) is 
amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``Any'' and 
        inserting ``(a) Any''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) If a court issues an injunction in a case, for a claim in 
which a recipient of Federal financial assistance for a program or 
activity is alleged to be in violation of this title--
            ``(1) the Federal department or agency empowered to extend 
        the Federal financial assistance shall not provide any Federal 
        financial assistance to the recipient until the earlier of--
                    ``(A) the date on which the court certifies that 
                the recipient is in compliance with the injunction; or
                    ``(B) the date that is 1 year after the date of 
                issuance of the injunction;
            ``(2) the Federal department or agency shall notify the 
        other Federal departments and agencies covered by this title of 
        the injunction; and
            ``(3) those Federal departments and agencies shall not 
        provide any Federal financial assistance to the recipient until 
        the earlier of the dates specified in paragraph (1).''.
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