Last progress January 21, 2025 (11 months ago)
Introduced on January 21, 2025 by Bill Cassidy
This bill aims to make it easier for college students to know their civil rights and how to report discrimination based on race, color, or national origin. The Department of Education must run a yearly awareness campaign about Title VI rights and send materials to colleges for posting in busy campus spots and on high-traffic web pages. Colleges that get federal student aid must also put a clear link on their homepage showing how to file a Title VI complaint with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) .
OCR must brief Congress each month for a year on the number of complaints, how they are being handled, and how long cases stay open. Colleges must file annual reports on discrimination complaints they receive. The Education Department’s Inspector General will audit schools with the highest per-student complaint rates and study why some complaints go to schools while others go to OCR. OCR may not close a complaint just because another agency or a school’s own process addressed it .
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Last progress December 18, 2025 (3 weeks ago)