Get to know the legislation
Since it's founding in 2016, Every Voice has filed student-written legislation in five states across the country: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Illinois, and Hawaii. Read on below to learn more about the Every Voice bills filed in each state:
STATE |
BILL NO. |
LEAD SPONSORS |
SUMMARY |
Massachusetts |
Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, Sen. Mike Moore, Sen. Will Brownsberger |
Provides for memorandums of understanding (MOUs) between institutions of higher education and community-based rape crisis centers; prevents reporting parties from being punished due to conduct policy violations occuring at the time of a reported assault; establishes the position of confidential resource advisor on all Massachusetts campuses; creates a task force on sexual misconduct climate surveys to design and implement a biennial statewide survey; and requires institutions of higher education to adopt and make available to students a policy on sexual misconduct. |
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New Hampshire |
Sen. Martha Hennessey, Rep. Cam Kenney, Rep. Joe Alexander, Rep. Daryl Abbas, Rep. Mary Heath, Rep. Garret Muscatel |
Requires institutions of higher education to adopt and make available to students policies on dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking; to develop a task force and survey on sexual misconduct and report its findings; to collaborate with law enforcement on the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault incidents; to establish confidential resource advisors; to develop awareness programming; and to undertake institutional training in the awareness and prevention of sexual violence on campus. |
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Connecticut |
Sen. Will Haskell, Sen. Tony Hwang, Sen. Derek Slap |
Establishes a Council on Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey to create a sexual misconduct climate survey for use by institutions of higher education in the state, and protects students who report being a victim or witness of sexual assault, stalking or violence from disciplinary action by the institution of higher education. |
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Hawaii |
Sen. Donna Kim, Rep. Amy Perruso |
Strengthens campus safety and accountability procedures and protocols, including those relating to sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and related issues, at the University of Hawaii. Takes steps to extend those procedures and protocols to private institutions of higher education in Hawaii. |
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Illinois |
Sen. Heather Steans, Rep. Carol Ammons |
Requires each higher education institution to conduct a sexual misconduct climate survey every 2 years of all students at its institution. Creates the Task Force on Campus Sexual Climate Surveys to develop and recommend to the Attorney General a base survey to be distributed to higher education institutions to be used with the institutions' sexual misconduct climate surveys. Provides that there shall be established within the Office of the Attorney General a data repository for all summaries of sexual misconduct climate surveys submitted by higher education institutions to the Attorney General. Requires each higher education institution to publish the campus level results of its survey. Requires the Attorney General to establish rules and procedures. Allows the Attorney General to impose a fine not to exceed $150,000 on a higher education institution that violates or fails to carry out the provisions. |