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IL SB3825

Bill

Status

Failed

1/13/2021

Primary Sponsor

Heather Steans

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Origin

Senate

101st General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Requires all Illinois higher education institutions to conduct a sexual misconduct climate survey every 2 years of all students and publish results on their websites in an easily accessible manner.

  • Establishes a 17-member Task Force on Campus Sexual Misconduct Surveys to develop and recommend a base survey template to the Attorney General for use by all institutions, with members including students, survivors, researchers, and representatives from various education sectors and advocacy organizations.

  • Creates a data repository within the Attorney General's Office to collect and publicly display all sexual misconduct climate survey summaries from higher education institutions on the Attorney General's website.

  • Requires survey questions to gather information on incident types, reporting rates, institutional policies awareness, victim support resources, campus safety perceptions, and demographic data to identify at-risk groups, while maintaining student anonymity.

  • Authorizes the Attorney General to impose civil penalties up to $150,000 (adjusted annually for inflation) on institutions that violate or fail to comply with survey requirements, with penalty funds used for oversight and victim services.

Legislative Description

HIGHER ED-SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Last Action

Session Sine Die

1/13/2021

Committee Referrals

Assignments4/12/2020
Higher Education3/12/2020
Assignments2/14/2020

Full Bill Text

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