HR 2680 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

HALT Campus Sexual Violence Act

Introduced Jun 4, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Jackie Speier D-CA

Latest action · Nov 16, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Progress

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IntroducedJun 4, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Hold Accountable and Lend Transparency on Campus Sexual Violence Act or the HALT Campus Sexual Violence Act

This bill amends the Department of Education Organization Act to require the Department of Education (ED) to make publicly available on its website:

a list of the institutions of higher education (IHEs) under investigation, sanctions or investigation findings, and a copy of program reviews and resolution agreements entered into with ED or the Department of Justice (DOJ), under title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) or title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964;
the letter terminating the ED's monitoring of such agreements; and
a list of the IHEs under investigation, and a copy of the program reviews, sanctions or investigation findings, and resolution agreements entered into with ED or DOJ, under the provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act).

ED may impose a civil penalty on an IHE that has violated a law under the jurisdiction of its Office for Civil Rights.

The bill amends the Clery Act to direct ED to develop a biennial sexual violence climate survey and include statistics from such survey in the annual campus security report provided to current and prospective students and employees.

An individual may allege a violation of the Clery Act in a judicial proceeding.

The maximum penalty for substantially misrepresenting the number, location, or nature of the crimes required to be reported under the Clery Act is increased.

The IHE's annual statement of its policy regarding domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking must:

use simple and understandable language and clear formatting;
be made available and posted on its public website and in conspicuous places in and around student housing and other campus buildings;
be provided to each student group, team, or organization that has a specified connection to the IHE or is known by the IHE to act on an unaffiliated basis; and
ensure that each of those groups distributes a copy of such policy to each of its members or applicants for membership.

ED and DOJ are directed to create a joint interagency Campus Sexual Violence Task Force.

Cosponsors 89

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 4, 2015 to Nov 14, 2016; 27 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-IL	Cheri Bustos	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-MI	Debbie Dingell	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Jim Costa	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-MD	John K. Delaney	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-FL	Lois Frankel	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Jun 4, 2015
R-PA	Patrick Meehan	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Jun 4, 2015
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Jun 8, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano		Jun 9, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jun 10, 2015
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Jun 10, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jun 10, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 12, 2015
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Jun 15, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jun 18, 2015
D-TX	Al Green		Jul 7, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jul 10, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jul 10, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jul 21, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Jul 23, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jul 27, 2015
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jul 28, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jul 29, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Sep 22, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Oct 7, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Nov 18, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Nov 30, 2015
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Nov 30, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson		Dec 2, 2015
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Dec 2, 2015
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Dec 2, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Dec 2, 2015
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Dec 2, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Dec 2, 2015
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Dec 2, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Dec 2, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Dec 2, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Dec 3, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Dec 7, 2015
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Dec 7, 2015
D-CA	John Garamendi		Dec 8, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Dec 8, 2015
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Dec 9, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus		Dec 9, 2015
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Dec 9, 2015
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Dec 9, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Dec 10, 2015
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Dec 11, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Dec 15, 2015
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Dec 17, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Dec 18, 2015
D-CA	Lois Capps		Dec 18, 2015
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Feb 10, 2016
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Feb 10, 2016
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Feb 23, 2016
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Apr 12, 2016
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Jun 9, 2016
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Jun 13, 2016
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Jun 16, 2016
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jul 12, 2016
D-NY	Grace Meng		Jul 14, 2016
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jul 14, 2016
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Jul 14, 2016
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jul 21, 2016
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Sep 8, 2016
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Sep 19, 2016
D-NC	David E. Price		Sep 28, 2016
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Nov 14, 2016
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Nov 14, 2016

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jun 4, 2015
	Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee	Referred Nov 16, 2015
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Jun 4, 2015
	Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee	Referred Jun 26, 2015
	Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee	Referred Jun 26, 2015

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

Nov 16, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Jun 26, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
Jun 26, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Jun 4, 2015Introduced in House
Jun 4, 2015Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 89, June 4, 2015, page H3916.

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R43764	Sexual Violence at Institutions of Higher Education Archived	Report	Apr 15, 2016

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase transparency and reporting on campus sexual violence, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: HALT Campus Sexual Violence Act; Hold Accountable and Lend Transparency on Campus Sexual Violence Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 4, 2015Introduced in House

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