85R9931 KJE-D
By: Uresti H.B. No. 2918
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring a public institution of higher education to
post on its Internet website a status report regarding certain
disciplinary processes involving an incident of 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 51.9367 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9367. STATUS REPORT OF DISCIPLINARY PROCESSES
INVOLVING CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT. (a) In this section,
"institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by
Section 61.003.
(b) Each institution of higher education shall post on the
institution's Internet website in a manner accessible by the public
a status report regarding each of the institution's pending or
recently concluded disciplinary processes involving an incident of
campus sexual assault.
(c) For each disciplinary process required to be included in
the status report under this section, the status report:
(1) must include:
(A) the date on which the sexual assault was
reported to the institution;
(B) the employee or employees of the institution
responsible for resolving the disciplinary process;
(C) the stage of the disciplinary process; and
(D) when applicable, the outcome of the
disciplinary process; and
(2) may not identify any alleged perpetrator or
alleged victim of the sexual assault.
(d) The status report must be updated at least once per
month.
(e) Information regarding a disciplinary process required
to be included in the status report under Subsection (c):
(1) may not be removed from the institution's Internet
website until at least the 90th day after the date on which the
disciplinary process concludes; and
(2) must be preserved by the institution indefinitely
after removal from the institution's Internet website.
SECTION 2. Section 51.9367, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a disciplinary process initiated by a
public institution of higher education on or after the effective
date of this Act. A disciplinary process initiated before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the disciplinary process was initiated, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
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, 2017.