Higher educational institutions; review committees, reporting of acts of sexual violence, report. (HB1930)

Introduced By

Del. Rob Bell (R-Charlottesville) with support from 6 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:

Those copatrons are Del. Dave Albo (R-Springfield), Del. Todd Gilbert (R-Woodstock), Del. Mark Keam (D-Vienna), Del. Bob Marshall (R-Manassas), Del. Jimmie Massie (R-Richmond), Del. Tom Rust (R-Herndon)

Description

Institutions of higher education; response to violence; penalty. Requires the protocols and policies for sexual assault response teams to include the campus and community response to criminal sexual assaults and violent felonies committed on the campus of any institution of higher education in the locality. The bill requires any faculty member or administrator of a public institution of higher education who through the course of his employment obtains information alleging that a violent felony has been committed to report such information to the attorney for the Commonwealth or the law-enforcement agency serving the locality in which the alleged violation occurred, with certain exceptions. The bill provides that a person in violation of the reporting requirement is subject to a civil penalty of $500 for the first violation and not more than $1,000 for each subsequent violation. The bill requires the governing board of each public or private institution of higher education to (i) establish a written memorandum of understanding with a local sexual assault crisis center or other victim support service and (ii) adopt policies to provide victims with information on contacting such center or service. The bill requires all persons appointed and employed as campus police officers or as members of auxiliary forces at an institution of higher education to receive training in trauma-informed response, interviewing, and investigation of alleged criminal sexual assaults committed on campus. The bill also requires that mutual aid agreements between a campus police force and law-enforcement agencies contain provisions requiring either the campus police force or an agency with which it has established a mutual aid agreement to notify the local attorney for the Commonwealth of any complaint or investigation involving a violent felony. Read the Bill »

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