“I hope the impact for Jewish students will be the same as all students—that students feel safe and welcome to be on campus,” the bill’s sponsor, told JNS
Washington state representative Mari Leavitt, a Democrat, is advancing a bill that would require organizers to ask universities for permission 21 days before setting up protest encampments on campuses and would hold unauthorized groups liable for damages and costs of removing encampments.
HB 2589 had a first reading on Jan. 20, and on Jan. 20, the state House Committee on Postsecondary Education and Workforce heard a public reading. It is scheduled to be discussed in an executive session of the committee on Feb. 3.
The bill states that “no person or organization may use an institution of higher education’s campus to camp” and that “an institution may authorize or deny the encampment request based on the time, place or manner of the encampment.”