1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Free Right to Expression in Education Act . 2. Campus individual rights Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) is amended— (1) in section 487(a), by adding at the end the following: (30) In the case of an institution that is a public institution, the institution will comply with the expressive activity protections described in section 493E. ; and (2) in part G, by adding at the end the following: 493E. Campus individual rights (a) Definition of expressive activities (1) In general In this section, the term expressive activity includes— (A) peacefully assembling, protesting, or speaking; (B) distributing literature; (C) carrying a sign; or (D) circulating a petition. (2) Exclusions In this section, the term expressive activity does not include violence, harassment, or obscenity (as defined by the Secretary in accordance with the precedents of the Supreme Court of the United States). (b) Expressive activities at an institution (1) In general Each public institution of higher education participating in a program under this title may not prohibit, subject to paragraph (2), a person from freely engaging in noncommercial expressive activity in an outdoor area on the institution's campus if the person's conduct is lawful. (2) Restrictions An institution of higher education described in paragraph (1) may maintain and enforce reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on an expressive activity in an outdoor area of the institution's campus, if the restriction— (A) is narrowly tailored to serve a significant institutional interest; (B) is based on published, content-neutral, and viewpoint-neutral criteria