Bill Text: TX HB2918 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring a public institution of higher education to post on its Internet website a status report regarding certain disciplinary processes involving an incident of campus sexual assault.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2918 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2918-Introduced.html
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| By: Uresti | H.B. No. 2918 | |
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| relating to requiring a public institution of higher education to | ||
| post on its Internet website a status report regarding certain | ||
| disciplinary processes involving an incident of campus 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 51.9367 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9367. STATUS REPORT OF DISCIPLINARY PROCESSES | ||
| INVOLVING CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT. (a) In this section, | ||
| "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Each institution of higher education shall post on the | ||
| institution's Internet website in a manner accessible by the public | ||
| a status report regarding each of the institution's pending or | ||
| recently concluded disciplinary processes involving an incident of | ||
| campus sexual assault. | ||
| (c) For each disciplinary process required to be included in | ||
| the status report under this section, the status report: | ||
| (1) must include: | ||
| (A) the date on which the sexual assault was | ||
| reported to the institution; | ||
| (B) the employee or employees of the institution | ||
| responsible for resolving the disciplinary process; | ||
| (C) the stage of the disciplinary process; and | ||
| (D) when applicable, the outcome of the | ||
| disciplinary process; and | ||
| (2) may not identify any alleged perpetrator or | ||
| alleged victim of the sexual assault. | ||
| (d) The status report must be updated at least once per | ||
| month. | ||
| (e) Information regarding a disciplinary process required | ||
| to be included in the status report under Subsection (c): | ||
| (1) may not be removed from the institution's Internet | ||
| website until at least the 90th day after the date on which the | ||
| disciplinary process concludes; and | ||
| (2) must be preserved by the institution indefinitely | ||
| after removal from the institution's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.9367, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a disciplinary process initiated by a | ||
| public institution of higher education on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. A disciplinary process initiated before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
| date the disciplinary process was initiated, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| 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. | ||
