Sam,
That is not completely clear. I read an op-ed on an israeli site today (perhaps the one ROB has been reading), which argued that the new law is not good enough, inter alia, because the quota of chareidim could be satisfied only through ones who were anyway not learning. It seems there are some who davka want the chareidim to stop learning and view that as a goal in itself.
If that is in fact part of the motivation for the law, then it would be fair to state they are trying to put people in jail for learning.