Legislative News
Recently Enacted Legislation
Stop Campus Hazing Act (H.R.5646) Became Law on 12/23/2024
Proposed Legislation
Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA) – H.R.9264 (2023-2024)
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act would:
- Increase transparency and reporting requirements under the Clery Act
- Create sexual and interpersonal violence specialists at each institution to serve as confidential aides for victims.
- Ensure that sexual and interpersonal violence specialists are well-trained by requiring training created by ED.
- Ensure that individuals who report sexual misconduct in good faith are not punished.
- Expand the VAWA Campus Grant Program.
- Requires the comptroller general to study the effectiveness of VAWA grants.
Restoring Civility on Campus Act (S. 4760)
The Restoring Civility on Campus Act would:
- Require immediate OCR investigation on complaints alleging discrimination based on ancestry or ethnicity
- Increase transparency for students who report antisemitism
- Ensure accurate reporting of hate-motivated crimes and strengthens OCR enforcement of Title VI
- Require ED to conduct ASR Audits
- Increase fines for failure to disclose crimes motivated by antisemitism
- From $69,733 to $1M per violation
- Improve accountability over university and agency officials by:
- Requiring ED staff to process the expedited evaluation of OCR complaints
- Requiring the president or chancellor of the institution to meet with OCR investigators
- Require ED to issue a public report on OCR cases involving alleged discrimination on the basis of shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics
- 30 days following the opening of the case
- The report also must be updated every 30 days for the following two years.