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The bill strengthens campus harassment prevention, response, and civil‑rights protections through funding, training, tracking, and preserved remedies, but it imposes new compliance, reporting, privacy, and fiscal costs on institutions, the federal government, and taxpayers.
Students at covered institutions will get clearer policies plus expanded prevention, counseling, and redress services, improving campus safety and support.
Students and applicants retain existing federal civil‑rights protections and access to remedies under Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, and the ADA, ensuring continued legal protections.
The bill authorizes sustained federal funding ($50M/year through FY2026–2031), giving colleges planning certainty to implement prevention and support programs.
Colleges and local institutions will face substantially higher administrative, compliance, reporting, and potential litigation costs to develop, publish, track policies and to comply with this Act alongside existing civil‑rights laws.
Taxpayers would fund the program — roughly $300 million authorized over six years — which could divert federal resources from other priorities.
Public reporting of harassment patterns risks exposing identifying or sensitive information about victims and accused if redaction is imperfect, creating privacy and reputational harms.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires colleges to report anti-harassment policies covering protected classes and electronic communications, creates a grant program, and authorizes $50M/year FY2026–FY2031.
Introduced September 18, 2025 by Mark Pocan · Last progress September 18, 2025
Requires most colleges and universities that participate in federal student-aid programs to publish an anti-harassment policy in their annual institutional report that covers protected characteristics and harassment carried out through electronic communications and mobile services, and to describe prevention, reporting, and response procedures. Creates a competitive federal grant program (authorized at $50 million per year for FY2026–FY2031) to create, expand, or improve campus harassment-prevention programs, with evaluation, reporting, and a requirement that the Department of Education publish evidence-based best practices.