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The bill increases visibility, data reporting, and federal oversight of Title VI complaints—making it easier for students and advocates to report and spot discriminatory patterns—while imposing new administrative costs on colleges, adding burdens to federal staff, and raising privacy and compliance risks for institutions and complainants.
Students, campus visitors, and advocates will have clearer, easier access to up‑to‑date Title VI complaint instructions and reporting resources because institutions must prominently post standardized links/materials and the government will push a centralized outreach campaign.
Students and schools will face stronger transparency and oversight as Congress receives monthly complaint counts/timelines (one year), institutions must report annually, and the highest‑complaint institutions are audited—potentially speeding investigations and increasing institutional accountability.
Parents, advocates, and policymakers will get disaggregated complaint data and an Inspector General study that can reveal patterns of race- or national-origin discrimination and explain why complainants file locally rather than with OCR, informing policy to improve access to federal enforcement.
Colleges and universities will incur new administrative and financial burdens to create, post, maintain campaign materials and website links, and to collect and report complaint data annually, which could strain budgets and staff.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and other federal staff may face increased reporting and administrative workloads that could divert resources from investigations, and the law’s one‑year monthly reporting window risks producing only temporary transparency without sustained performance improvements.
Public or congressional summaries of complaint data risk disclosing sensitive or identifying information about complainants if privacy protections fail, endangering students and others who report discrimination.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires DOE to run a Title VI awareness campaign, mandates colleges post OCR complaint links/materials, adds institutional reporting, monthly OCR briefings to Congress, and IG audits of high-complaint campuses.
Requires the Department of Education (through the Office for Civil Rights) to run an annually updated public awareness campaign explaining people’s rights under Title VI and to distribute visible, accessible materials to colleges and universities. Colleges that receive federal funds must post a homepage link to the OCR Title VI complaint page and display the campaign materials on campus and on high-traffic webpages. Creates new transparency and reporting requirements: the OCR must brief Congress monthly for one year on Title VI complaints (with a written report 48 hours before each briefing), and every federally funded institution must submit an annual report to the Department of Education Inspector General listing and analyzing Title VI complaints and actions taken. The Inspector General will audit institutions in the top 5% by per-capita complaint rate and study differences between complaints submitted to institutions and those filed directly with OCR. The Secretary may contract with nonprofit groups to run the campaign.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by Lois Frankel · Last progress December 18, 2025