Overview
- Rep. Lois Frankel formally reintroduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act at a public event with bipartisan sponsors and the bill is now pending in Congress.
- The proposal would require colleges and universities to post their sexual-misconduct policies, complaint filing instructions, and statistics on allegations publicly on their websites.
- The legislation would mandate trained, confidential 'violence specialists' on campuses to serve as direct advisers and support for survivors.
- Bill supporters want to expand the Violence Against Women Act campus grant program to fund prevention work, survivor services, and law-enforcement training while allowing fines of up to 1% of an institution’s annual operating budget for each year of noncompliance.
- Backers cited a high-profile Cornell case to press urgency and said they will keep pushing the bill or reintroduce it again if it does not advance this congressional session.