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Introduced October 8, 2025 by Kirsten Gillibrand · Last progress October 8, 2025
The bill aims to increase transparency, survivor supports, and federal oversight of campus sexual misconduct while imposing new reporting, staffing, and compliance requirements that create privacy risks, costs, and possible deterrents to reporting.
Students, parents, and the public will get clearer, standardized campus crime and Title IX data (annual incident counts, outcomes, and searchable summaries), making it easier to evaluate campus safety and institutional handling.
Students who are survivors will have better access to on‑campus, trauma‑informed support (trained specialists, confidential services, clear online disclosures, and accommodations), improving immediate safety and care.
Department and GAO reporting and public posting of investigation summaries will strengthen institutional accountability and oversight of how colleges handle sexual harassment and violence.
Students, respondents, and named staff face privacy and reputational risks from more detailed reporting and public listings (possible de‑anonymization or publication before final findings).
Colleges will face significant new administrative and compliance costs (data mapping, staffing specialists, reporting systems) that could be passed to students or reduce other campus services; some institutions may struggle to comply.
Mandatory reporting/expanded disclosures and public reporting may deter survivors from reporting or seeking confidential help, reducing access to support for some students.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Strengthens campus reporting and Title IX transparency, requires trained sexual-violence specialists and uniform disciplinary rules, changes DOJ grant language, and orders a GAO study.
Expands federal campus-safety rules to increase reporting, transparency, survivor supports, and accountability for colleges that receive federal higher-education funds. It requires schools to report more detailed crime and disciplinary data, adopt standardized definitions for sex offenses, create trained sexual and interpersonal violence specialists, post Title IX and enforcement information on a public Department of Education website, and face civil penalties for failures to comply. The bill also directs changes to a Department of Justice campus-crime grant program (text of those insertions is not provided) and orders a GAO study of federal campus grants within two years.