Bill Text: TX SR931 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction on SB 968.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-28 - Reported enrolled [SR931 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SR931-Enrolled.html
| By: Watson | S.R. No. 931 | |
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| BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 85th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, That Senate Rule 12.03 be | ||
| suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the | ||
| conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on | ||
| Senate Bill 968 (a sexual assault policy at certain public and | ||
| private institutions of higher education and to requiring those | ||
| institutions to provide students and employees an option to | ||
| electronically report certain offenses to the institution) to | ||
| consider and take action on the following matter: | ||
| Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the committee | ||
| to add text on a matter which is not included in either the house | ||
| or senate version of the bill in SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended | ||
| Section 51.9363, Education Code, to read as follows: | ||
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| this section, "postsecondary educational institution" means an | ||
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| applicable to each student enrolled at and each employee of the | ||
| institution. The policy must: | ||
| (1) include: | ||
| (A) definitions of prohibited behavior; | ||
| (B) sanctions for violations; and | ||
| (C) the protocol for reporting and responding | ||
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| (2) be approved by the institution's governing board | ||
| before final adoption by the institution. | ||
| (c) Each postsecondary educational institution [ |
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| assault policy available to students, faculty, and staff members | ||
| by: | ||
| (1) including the policy in the institution's | ||
| student handbook and personnel handbook; and | ||
| (2) creating and maintaining a web page on the | ||
| institution's Internet website dedicated solely to the policy. | ||
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| undergraduate transfer student to attend an orientation on the | ||
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| the first semester or term in which the student is enrolled at the | ||
| institution. The institution shall establish the format and | ||
| content of the orientation. | ||
| Explanation: This addition is necessary to expand to | ||
| private or independent institutions of higher education the | ||
| requirements regarding a sexual assault policy and to require the | ||
| policy to encompass all incidents of sexual assault, regardless | ||
| of whether those incidents occur on or off campus. | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on May 28, 2017, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
