Bill Text: CA AB1467 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Student safety: sexual assault and domestic violence procedures and protocols: sexual assault and domestic violence counselors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2022. [AB1467 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1467-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 25, 2021 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes |
February 19, 2021 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing
Existing law requires, no later than January 1, 2022, except as specified, a postsecondary institution that receives state financial assistance to comply with requirements relating to the protection of students from, and providing students with procedural protections relating to complaints of, sexual harassment, including, among others, requiring the governing board or body of each of these institutions to adopt and publish on its internet website grievance procedures providing for the prompt and equitable resolution of sexual harassment complaints.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would enact reforms to postsecondary educational institutions’ policies, procedures, and campus-based investigations following an incident of harassment, rape, sexual
assault, or violence.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 67385 of the Education Code is amended to read:67385.
(a) The governing board of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, and the Regents of the University of California shall each adopt, and implement at each of their respective campuses or other facilities, a written procedure or protocols to ensure, to the fullest extent possible, that students, faculty, and staff who are victims of sexual assault committed at or upon the grounds of, or upon off-campus grounds or facilities maintained by the institution, or upon grounds or facilities maintained by affiliated student organizations, shall receive treatment and information. If appropriate on-campus treatment facilities are unavailable, the written procedure or protocols may provide for referrals to local community treatment centers.(e)
SEC. 2.
Section 89033 is added to the Education Code, to read:89033.
(a) The trustees and the chancellor, when reviewing and updating any executive orders relating to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation for the purpose of enforcing or implementing the requirements of Section 67385, may do so in collaboration, as they deem appropriate, with any of the following:SEC. 3.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would enact reforms to postsecondary educational institutions’ policies, procedures, and campus-based investigations following an incident of harassment, rape, sexual assault, or violence.