Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act)

Maryland's SB 847 requires all public and private higher education institutions to adopt and enforce policies addressing racial, ethnic, and religious violence, harassment, and intimidation. These policies must include mandatory training for staff on responding to hate incidents, clear complaint procedures with anonymous reporting options, and disciplinary actions following investigations. The bill also mandates that institutions publish time, place, and manner rules for campus expression and hold annual meetings with student organizations to discuss these policies and campus incidents. Additionally, institutions must align their diversity programming with the state's annual hate bias report data.