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Senate Education Committee reviews H.931 amendments, narrows intercollegiate sexual-harm prevention council role
Summary
Legislative counsel presented Draft 3.1 to amend H.931, removing a previously extensive statutory section and recasting the intercollegiate sexual‑harm prevention council as an information‑sharing body with revised membership and no standing legislative reporting requirement; advocates signaled willingness to stay engaged.
Legislative counsel on April 24 told the Senate Education Committee that Draft 3.1 of the House‑passed H.931 strikes a large statutory section and replaces it with narrow language that establishes an intercollegiate sexual‑harm prevention council focused on sharing best practices among postsecondary institutions.
The committee was told the council’s charge is to "advance best practices for prevention of and response to campus sexual harm," while several previously enumerated statutory duties and an annual reporting requirement were removed. Betsy James of the Office of Legislative Council said the draft replaces the struck section with the single word "deleted" for that portion of statute and inserts a new effective‑date section tied to the council language.
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