Proposal to deny public aid and contracts to entities that discriminate or promote antisemitism

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1. The bill seeks to prevent entities that discriminate based on birth, race, sex, religion, opinion or other conditions, with a focus on antisemitism, from receiving public aid, contracts or subsidies. It adopts the working definition of antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
2. It amends the General Subsidies Law so that entities that discriminate, call for boycotts, or promote racist or antisemitic hatred, among other conduct, cannot be subsidy beneficiaries or collaborating entities. These bans would be applied automatically and, if not based on a final court ruling, could not exceed five years.
3. It amends the Public Sector Contracts Law to add a new ground for being barred from public contracts: discriminating or calling for boycotts for racist or antisemitic reasons, or promoting hatred or violence. It also sets out how the ban is applied and when it takes effect.
4. It expands the Organic Laworganic law A law on fundamental rights, the electoral system or other matters the Constitution reserves. It needs an absolute majority in the Congreso: 176 votes. on the Right of Association so that the ban on receiving public aid, currently limited to associations, covers all kinds of entities that discriminate, including for antisemitic reasons, or that promote or justify hatred or violence.
5. If passed, the law would take effect the day after its publication in the official state gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado).

Who it affects

• Entities and associations that discriminate or promote hatred or antisemitism: They could not receive public subsidies or act as collaborating entities if they discriminate or promote hatred.
• Companies and entities seeking public contracts: They could not contract with the public sector if the new prohibition applies to them.
• Bodies that award public subsidies and contracts: They would have to apply the contracting ban and check the requirements for aid beneficiaries.

Words worth knowing

Entidad colaboradora

A person or entity that helps the government manage and distribute a subsidy, without being the final beneficiary.

Sentencia firme

A court ruling that can no longer be appealed.

Proposición de ley

A bill: a text proposing a new law that still must be debated and passed by Congress; it is not in force.

organic law

A law on fundamental rights, the electoral system or other matters the Constitution reserves. It needs an absolute majority in the Congreso: 176 votes.

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