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SENATE BILL NO. 343
BY SENATOR BARROW
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.
18 (3) The reports for which the institution determined not to initiate a
19 disciplinary process, if any.
20 (4) Any complaints of retaliation and the status of the investigation of the
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1 complaints.
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3 C. The chancellor of each institution shall submit a report to the institution's
4 management board within fourteen days of receiving the report pursuant to
5 Subsection A of this Section from the Title IX coordinator. The report shall include
6 the number of employees and confidential advisors for the institution, the number
7 and percentage of these who have completed required annual training, the number
8 of complaints of power-based violence received by the institution, the number of
9 complaints which resulted in a finding that power-based violations occurred, the
10 number of complaints in which the finding of power-based violations resulted in
11 discipline or corrective action, the type of discipline or corrective action taken, the
12 amount of time it took to resolve each complaint, the number of reports of
13 retaliation, and the findings of any investigations of reports of retaliation. The report
14 shall be posted on the institution's website.
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16 E. The management board shall send an annual system-wide summary
17 incident report to the Board of Regents by December thirty-first. The Board of
18 Regents shall post the report on its website.
19 F. In addition, each management board shall send an annual training
20 report to the Board of Regents by January thirtieth. The report shall include
21 the number of employees and confidential advisors for each institution, and the
22 number and percentage of those who have completed the required annual
23 training. The training report shall be published on the website of each system.
24 G. The Board of Regents, in consultation with the Louisiana Power-Based
25 Violence Review Panel, shall annually submit a report to the governor, the president
26 of the Senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Senate and House
27 committees on education and select committees on women and children by January
28 fifteenth February twenty-eighth which shall include system-wide and statewide
29 information. The report shall also include any recommendations for legislation. The
30 report shall be published on the website of the Board of Regents.
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1 Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
2 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
3 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
4 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act become
5 effective on the day following such approval.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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