Bill Text: CA AB1549 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Postsecondary education: sexual assault: audits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-11 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). [AB1549 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1549-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1549	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rendon

                        JANUARY 27, 2014

   An act to amend Section 66281.5 of the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1549, as introduced, Rendon. Postsecondary education: Equity in
Higher Education Act.
   Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets
forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's
public and independent segments of higher education and their
respective institutions of higher education. Provisions of the act
apply to the University of California only to the extent that the
Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution,
act to make a provision applicable.
   A portion of the Donahoe Higher Education Act known as the Equity
in Higher Education Act requires, among other things, that each
postsecondary institution in the state have a written policy on
sexual harassment and display a copy of that policy in a prominent
location, as defined, in the main administrative building or other
areas of the campus or schoolsite.
   This bill would add to the Equity in Higher Education Act a
provision requiring that the written policy on sexual harassment also
be displayed in a prominent location on the official Internet Web
site of each postsecondary educational institution.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 66281.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   66281.5.  (a) It is the policy of the State of California,
pursuant to Section 66251, that all persons, regardless of their sex,
should enjoy freedom from discrimination of any kind in the
postsecondary educational institution of the state. The purpose of
this section is to provide notification of the prohibition against
sexual harassment as a form of sexual discrimination and to provide
notification of available remedies.
   (b) Each postsecondary educational institution in the State of
California shall have a written policy on sexual harassment. It is
the intent of the Legislature that each educational institution in
this state include this policy in its regular policy statement rather
than distribute an additional written document.
   (c) The postsecondary educational institution's written policy on
sexual harassment shall include information on where to obtain the
specific rules and procedures for reporting charges of sexual
harassment and for pursuing available remedies.
   (d) A copy of the postsecondary educational institution's written
policy on sexual harassment shall be displayed in a prominent
location in the main administrative building or other area of the
campus or schoolsite  and on the official Internet Web site of
the institution . "Prominent location" means that location, or
those locations, in the main administrative building or other area
 , and on the official Internet Web site of the institution,
 where notices regarding the institution's rules, regulations,
procedures, and standards of conduct are posted.
   (e) A copy of the postsecondary educational institution's written
policy on sexual harassment, as it pertains to students, shall be
provided as part of any orientation program conducted for new
students at the beginning of each quarter, semester, or summer
session, as applicable.
   (f) A copy of the postsecondary educational institution's written
policy on sexual harassment shall be provided for each faculty
member, all members of the administrative staff, and all members of
the support staff at the beginning of the first quarter or semester
of the school year, or at the time that there is a new employee
hired.
   (g) A copy of the postsecondary educational institution's written
policy on sexual harassment shall appear in any publication of the
institution that sets forth the comprehensive rules, regulations,
procedures, and standards of conduct for the institution.