Bill Text: TX HB699 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public institutions of higher education to establish a policy on campus sexual assault.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB699 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB699-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 699 | ||
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| relating to requiring public institutions of higher education to | ||
| establish a policy on 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 51.9363 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9363. CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT POLICY. (a) In this | ||
| section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned | ||
| by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Each institution of higher education shall adopt a | ||
| policy on campus sexual assault. The policy must: | ||
| (1) include: | ||
| (A) definitions of prohibited behavior; | ||
| (B) sanctions for violations; and | ||
| (C) the protocol for reporting and responding to | ||
| reports of campus sexual assault; and | ||
| (2) be approved by the institution's governing board | ||
| before final adoption by the institution. | ||
| (c) Each institution of higher education shall make the | ||
| institution's campus sexual 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. | ||
| (d) Each institution of higher education shall require each | ||
| entering freshman or undergraduate transfer student to attend an | ||
| orientation on the institution's campus sexual assault policy | ||
| before or during 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. | ||
| (e) Each biennium, each institution of higher education | ||
| shall review the institution's campus sexual assault policy and, | ||
| with approval of the institution's governing board, revise the | ||
| policy as necessary. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.9363, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2015 fall semester. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 699 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 102, Nays 40, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 699 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
