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2024 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 343
BY SENATOR BARROW
COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES. Provides relative to the prevention of power-based violence
in public postsecondary education institutions. (gov sig)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 17:3399.13.1 (A), (C), (E), and (F) and to enact R.S.
3 17:3399.13.1 (G), relative to the prevention of power-based violence in public
4 postsecondary education institutions; to provide with respect to written reports;
5 provides with respect to the dates of the reports; provides with respect to required
6 annual training; to provide an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 2. R.S. 17:3399.13.1 (A), (C), (E), and (F) hereby amended and reenacted
9 and R.S. 17:3399.13.1 (G) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
10 ยง3399.13.1. Administrative reporting requirements
11 A. Not later than October tenth and April tenth of each year, the Title IX
12 coordinator of an institution shall submit to the chancellor of the institution a written
13 incident report on the reports received under R.S. 17:3399.13, including information
14 regarding:
15 (1) The investigation of those reports.
16 (2) The disposition, if any, of any disciplinary processes arising from those
17 reports.
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1 (3) The reports for which the institution determined not to initiate a
2 disciplinary process, if any.
3 (4) Any complaints of retaliation and the status of the investigation of the
4 complaints.
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6 C. The chancellor of each institution shall submit a report to the institution's
7 management board within fourteen days of receiving the report pursuant to
8 Subsection A of this Section from the Title IX coordinator. The report shall include
9 the number of employees and confidential advisors for the institution, the number
10 and percentage of these who have completed required annual training, the number
11 of complaints of power-based violence received by the institution, the number of
12 complaints which resulted in a finding that power-based violations occurred, the
13 number of complaints in which the finding of power-based violations resulted in
14 discipline or corrective action, the type of discipline or corrective action taken, the
15 amount of time it took to resolve each complaint, the number of reports of
16 retaliation, and the findings of any investigations of reports of retaliation. The report
17 shall be posted on the institution's website.
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19 E. The management board shall send an annual system-wide summary
20 incident report to the Board of Regents by December thirty-first. The Board of
21 Regents shall post the report on its website.
22 F. In addition, each management board shall send an annual training
23 report to the Board of Regents by January thirtieth. The report shall include
24 the number of employees and confidential advisors for each institution, and the
25 number and percentage of those who have completed the required annual
26 training. The training report shall be published on the website of each system.
27 G. The Board of Regents, in consultation with the Louisiana Power-Based
28 Violence Review Panel, shall annually submit a report to the governor, the president
29 of the Senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Senate and House
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1 committees on education and select committees on women and children by January
2 fifteenth February twenty-eight which shall include system-wide and statewide
3 information. The report shall also include any recommendations for legislation. The
4 report shall be published on the website of the Board of Regents.
5 Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
6 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
7 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
8 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act become
9 effective on the day following such approval.
The original instrument was prepared by Carla S. Roberts. The following
digest, which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was
prepared by Dawn Romero Watson.
DIGEST
SB 343 Reengrossed 2024 Regular Session Barrow
Present law provides for the "Campus Accountability and Safety Act" that requires each
responsible employee of the public colleges and universities report to the Title IX
coordinator, with respect to power-based violence. The chancellor of each institution is to
submit a report to the institution's management board within 14-days of receiving the report
pursuant from the Title IX coordinator. Requires each criminal justice agency, including
college and university campus police departments, to provide written notification if it does
not have any sexually-oriented criminal offenses reported, any reported sexual assault
collection kits in its possession, or any unreported sexual assault collection kits in its
possession. Requires a report as to the number of employees and confidential advisors for
each campus and the number and percentage of those who have completed required annual
training and requires the report of each college or university as well as their management
board and to be posted on both websites. The incidents of power-based violence are to be
reported to each criminal justice agency, including college and university campus police
departments, and to the La. Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of
Criminal Justice. The incidents report will contain all of the following:
(1)The number of sexually-oriented criminal offenses reported.
(2)The status of each sexually-oriented criminal offense case reported.
(3)The number of sexual assault collection kits submitted for analysis.
(4)The number of reported sexual assault collection kits requiring analysis.
(5)The number of reported sexual assault collection kits received.
(6)The number of unreported sexual assault collection kits received.
(7)The number of reported sexual assault collection kits that were untested due to
judicial or investigative reasons.
Proposed law retains present law and clarifies that the report containing the incidents that
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were actually reported to the college and universities. Deletes the responsibility of posting
the number and percentage of employees and confidential advisors who complete the
required annual training from each college or university solely to the management board of
each college or university on the respective management board's website and requires the
report to be submitted by January 30th and annually thereafter.
Present law requires that the Board of Regents, in consultation with the La. Power-Based
Violence Review Panel, to annually submit a report to the governor, the president of the La.
Senate, the speaker of the La. House of Representatives, and the Senate and House
Education Committees and the Senate select committees on women and children by January
15th and the report is to include system-wide and statewide information. The report is to also
include any recommendations for legislation. The report is to be published on the website
of the Board of Regents.
Proposed law retains present law and changes the annual reporting deadline from January
15th to February 28th.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 17:3399.13.1 (A), (C), (E), and (F) and adds R.S. 17:3399.13.1(G))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Senate Floor Amendments to engrossed bill
1. Make technical corrections.
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