Bill Text: TX HB2230 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain public and private institutions of higher education to provide amnesty to students who report incidents of sexual assault.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2230 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2230-Introduced.html
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By: Leach | H.B. No. 2230 |
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relating to requiring certain public and private institutions of | ||
higher education to provide amnesty to students who report | ||
incidents of sexual assault. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.9366 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.9366. AMNESTY FOR STUDENTS REPORTING INCIDENTS OF | ||
SEXUAL ASSAULT. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board. | ||
(2) "Postsecondary educational institution" means an | ||
institution of higher education or a private or independent | ||
institution of higher education, as those terms are defined by | ||
Section 61.003. | ||
(b) A postsecondary educational institution may not take | ||
any disciplinary action against a student enrolled at the | ||
institution for a violation by the student of the institution's | ||
policies on student conduct if the student reports to the | ||
institution being the victim of, or a witness to, an incident of | ||
sexual assault and the violation of the institution's policies is | ||
in relation to the incident. This subsection applies regardless of | ||
the location at which the incident occurred or the outcome of the | ||
institution's disciplinary process or a criminal proceeding | ||
regarding the incident, if any. | ||
(c) This section may not be construed to limit a | ||
postsecondary educational institution's ability to provide amnesty | ||
from application of the institution's policies in circumstances not | ||
described by Subsection (b). | ||
(d) The coordinating board may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
implement and enforce this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 51.9366, Education Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |