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1		-	By: Nevárez, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 699
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2015;
3		-	May 7, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
4		-	Education; May 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
5		-	Yeas 4, Nays 2; May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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9		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	4		AN ACT
11	5		relating to requiring public institutions of higher education to
12	6		establish a policy on campus sexual assault.
13	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	8		SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
15	9		amended by adding Section 51.9363 to read as follows:
16	10		Sec. 51.9363. CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT POLICY. (a) In this
17	11		section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned
18	12		by Section 61.003.
19	13		(b) Each institution of higher education shall adopt a
20	14		policy on campus sexual assault. The policy must:
21	15		(1) include:
22	16		(A) definitions of prohibited behavior;
23	17		(B) sanctions for violations; and
24	18		(C) the protocol for reporting and responding to
25	19		reports of campus sexual assault; and
26	20		(2) be approved by the institution's governing board
27	21		before final adoption by the institution.
28	22		(c) Each institution of higher education shall make the
29	23		institution's campus sexual assault policy available to students,
30	24		faculty, and staff members by:
31	25		(1) including the policy in the institution's student
32	26		handbook and personnel handbook; and
33	27		(2) creating and maintaining a web page on the
34	28		institution's Internet website dedicated solely to the policy.
35	29		(d) Each institution of higher education shall require each
36	30		entering freshman or undergraduate transfer student to attend an
37	31		orientation on the institution's campus sexual assault policy
38	32		before or during the first semester or term in which the student is
39	33		enrolled at the institution. The institution shall establish the
40	34		format and content of the orientation.
41	35		(e) Each biennium, each institution of higher education
42	36		shall review the institution's campus sexual assault policy and,
43	37		with approval of the institution's governing board, revise the
44	38		policy as necessary.
45	39		SECTION 2. Section 51.9363, Education Code, as added by
46	40		this Act, applies beginning with the 2015 fall semester.
47	41		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
48	42		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
49	43		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
50	44		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
51	45		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	46	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	47	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	48	+	I certify that H.B. No. 699 was passed by the House on April
	49	+	28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 102, Nays 40, 2 present, not
	50	+	voting.
	51	+	______________________________
	52	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	53	+	I certify that H.B. No. 699 was passed by the Senate on May
	54	+	27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7.
	55	+	______________________________
	56	+	Secretary of the Senate
	57	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	58	+	Date
	59	+	_____________________
	60	+	Governor