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Sponsor says campus reporting bill fixes gaps; committee forwards measure after sponsor answers questions
Summary
Representative Nessa Hartman and staff told the committee House Bill 3,731 clarifies annual reporting on misconduct at higher-education institutions by adding narrative sections and permitting longer executive summaries; the committee approved the bill and sent it to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
Representative Nessa Hartman told the Senate Education Committee on May 21 that House Bill 3,731 changes reporting requirements for misconduct at institutions of higher education to add optional and required narrative sections and to allow an unlimited-length executive summary. The measure, she said, is intended to clarify the context behind the numerical data institutions already report and to address gaps identified after prior reports.
Hartman, who identified herself as the sponsor and representative of House District 40, said the bill is tied to earlier work from the 2023 campus-survivors legislation and that the revisions respond to feedback from Title IX coordinators across the state. “After I listened to…
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